Pleyt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pleyt is a noun meaning (nautical, archaic) A riverboat.
Meaning
(nautical, archaic) A riverboat.
More Meanings
- (historical) A whip, as an instrument of punishment or torture in Russia.
Example Sentences
The model on display belongs to the family of the "pleyt" or "pleitscip"."
In the second group a variety of ships may be placed: a boeyer, a pleyt, a krayer, an ever, a cogge, a bark, a hulk, and from the middle of the 15th century onwards a carvel.
The lady was publicly knouted (flogged with an instrument of torture called a pleyt), had her tongue cut out, flung, a piece of quivering and bleeding flesh, on a cart, and banished to Siberia.
In Russia, the pleyt is a terrible form of punishment, which is still, I believe, administered in rare instances in Siberia. It is not ten years ago that a woman was flogged to death in Siberia.
Word Forms
- pleyts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pigboat, partyboat, lightboat, pungy, flyboat, bateau.
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