plattern.¹

Brit.

/ˈplatə/, U.S.

/ˈplædər/

Forms: Middle English platere, Middle English platir, Middle English plattar, Middle English platyr, Middle English–1500s plater, 1500s blatter, 1500s plather, 1500s– platter; Scottish pre-1700 1900s– plaitter, 1700s– platter, 1900s– plaeter (Shetland); Irish English 1800s plathearès (Wexford, plural).

Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymons: French plater, platel.

Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman plater (late 13th cent. or earlier), variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French platel serving dish (see plateau n.¹). Compare post-classical Latin platera dish, platter (a1276, 1342 in British sources).

a. Originally: a large, flat dish or plate, esp. for food. Later also: the quantity contained on a platter; a plateful; (chiefly North American, usually with modifier denoting the type of food being served) a main dish with accompaniments, served on a platter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate

disha700

scuttlec1050

trencherc1308

plattera1325

paten?1340

esquele1371

skelec1400

plat1415

plate?c1450

skewel1567

trencher-plate1580

goggan1586

trench1602

table plate1669

mazarine1673

discus1680

wearing plate1683

silver plate1710

nappy1731

roundel1797

muffin1820

entrée dish1846

pinax1858

a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 818 (MED) Þulke here Þat arecheþ wiþ me his hond in þe platere, He me wole sulle & take.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Matt. xxiii. 25 Woo to ȝou..ipocritis, that maken clene that thing of the cuppe and plater [L. paropsidis] that is with outforth.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 153 Þe grettest prelate..lays it apon a grete plater of siluer.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iii. 37 Ete his mete oute of platers and disshes of tree and of wode.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xiv. f. xx Geve me here Ihon baptistes heed in a platter.

1591 Inventory of Robert Howldsworth 25 Feb. in R. W. Ambler et al. Farmers & Fishermen (1987) 87 Itm. one chardger and vj puter platters and xiiij puter dishes a bassen xv porringers.

1608 J. Smith True Relation (1907) 45 Each morning 3. women presented me three great platters of fine bread, more venison then ten men could devour I had.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xvii. 146 Fish coming out of a pan is not to be covered with a platter, lest the vapour congeled in the platter drop down again upon the fish.

1750 G. G. Beekman Let. 27 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1290 No platters but Lett them be hallow ware.

1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 11 While his lov'd partner..Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 58 Half a dozen great Delft platters, hung..by way of pictures.

1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains I. i. vii. 174 The girls..returned, each bearing a platter of fruit, which they placed before me.

1956 A. J. Cronin Crusader's Tomb 188 Another cup had been brought and with perfect courtesy he poured coffee for Stephen, proffered the platter of rolls.

1981 Cook's Mag. Nov. 52/1 A potato chain is an impressive garnish. Made from a white potato it can be deep fried and used to add flourish to a meat platter.

2003 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 Oct. 4 The Mexican steak platter... In addition to the six ounce sirloin, the plate comes loaded with a chile relleno with green chile sauce, a red chile cheese enchilada and plenty of beans and rice.

b. to hand (something to a person) on a (silver) platter: to hand (something to a person) without requiring that person to make any effort or go to any trouble over the matter; to present (something) without it having been asked or sought for; to present in a complete or fully accomplished form. Cf. to hand (also give) (something) to (a person) on a plate at plate n. 27b.

ΚΠ

1896 Washington Post 28 Feb. 6/2 Will he take it [sc. the nomination], even if it be handed to him on a silver platter..with the prayers and the solicitations of his fellow Democrats?

1918 T. Wolfe Let. 18 Feb. (1958) 8 You don't get anything handed to you on a silver platter.

1960 G. Sanders Mem. Professional Cad i. vii. 55 I was otherwise engaged at the time building a telescope in my back garden and being, by vocation, a dilettante, this interested me far more than the golden future which Mr. Mayer was going to offer me on a silver platter.

2004 Progress Leader (Australia) (Nexis) 10 Aug. 81 Everything the lifestyle guru ordered is handed to you on a silver platter at this address.

c. [Rhyming slang.] In full platters of meat. Feet. Cf. plate n. 28b(b).

ΚΠ

1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 227 Plates of meat,..= feet. On dit aussi platters of meat.

1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 16/1 Platters..,big feet.

1960 J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 108/2 Platters of meat, feet. 20 C., a form of plates..and not used in Cockney circles.

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 92 Platters, feet.

2. Baseball slang. = home plate n. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] > slab marking home base

home1845

home base1855

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home plate1869

rubber1889

pan1891

platter1892

1892 Washington Post 22 June 6/3 Comiskey's bunt sent the winning run over the platter.

1915 C. Mathewson Catcher Craig v. 64 Porter scooped up the ball on the run, turned swiftly, and threw to the plate. And Jimmy Benson, astride the platter, caught it waist-high.

1973 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 27 May 67/7 Two runs crossed the platter.

a. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A gramophone record. Cf. plate n. 28.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc

phonograph record1878

record1878

disc1879

gramophone record1888

title1908

platter1926

phonodisc1929

release1932

wax1932

plate1935

waxing1936

audio disc1944

cut1949

sounds1955

twelve-inch1976

vinyl1976

1926 J. J. Finerty Criminalese 45 Platter, gramophone record.

1935 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 38/1 There ought to be a hot coupling on every platter.

1967 ‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon xviii. 184 I went into Fink Roth's pad and found treasures. Good old platters and stamps. I sold them. Got a good price for the records.

1993 Rolling Stone 8 July 25/1 His fourteen-year-old son's fascination with a Jimi Hendrix best-of collection that had just been released..prompted him to dig out some old platters by Moby Grape, the Incredible String Band, Traffic and others that had shaped him in his pre-Zeppelin days.

b. The rotating disc of a turntable unit, on which a record is placed for playing.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > turntable

platter1975

deck1989

1975 Gramophone Jan. 1297 (advt.) With the heavy platter and extra thick turn-table mat, our final figures are impressive.

1991 What Hi-Fi? Oct. 211/1 Belt-drive A form of turntable utilising a belt to transmit drive from the motor pulley to the platter on which the record sits.

4. Computing. A round plate coated with magnetic material, on which data is stored in a hard disk drive.

ΚΠ

1974 Sci. Amer. July 73/2 (advt.) With a disc drive of one fixed and one removable platter, the Mass Memory can store 2.4 million 8-bit bytes on each platter—as much as can be stored on 38 magnetic tape cassettes.

1982 Which Computer? June 93/3 It comprises six 10½ in platters, with a combination of 20 fixed read/write heads, and a capacity of 474 MB of storage.

1998 Daily Tel. 17 Sept. (Connected section) 2/4 The world's smallest and lightest hard disk drive, with a disk platter the size of a large coin, has been developed by IBM.

2004 Mix (Nexis) 1 July 8 Disk drives have..one or more ‘platters’ of polished rigid disks made of aluminum or glass, coated with ferromagnetic material.

Compounds

C1.

† platter case n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §303 In the kitchen..were two settles with lockers, a dresser with drawers, two cup~boards, and one platter case.

platter mat n.

ΚΠ

1909 Oxnard (Calif.) Courier 13 Aug. 2/1 (advt.) One set of Three Oblong or Round Straw Platter Mats 25c a set.

1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 26 Nov. 38 a Other Oracle innovations have been copied by virtually every other turntable manufacturer with high-end aspirations, such as the smooth platter mat (previous mats were ridged).

† platter mouth n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xv. f. 194 At his nosethrills and His platter mouth did puffe out part of sea vppon the land.

1674 Hogan-Moganides 40 The platter Mouth and Face. This brats Face! 'Twere e'en the same as Owll, or Cats Face.

platter plate n.

ΚΠ

1930 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 11 July 7/5 A Platter Plate at 50c.

2003 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. 11 It began a couple of years ago when tourists asked if they might have a superb platter plate as a souvenir of their visit.

platter-shaped adj.

ΚΠ

1830 in S. T. Coleridge Shorter Wks. & Fragm. (1995) II. 1489 The Ocean was the supposed circular Rim of the platter-shaped Earth.

1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond I. xv. 224 He and the dog took alternate bites off a platter-shaped cake.

1994 Amer. Antiq. 59 343 (table) A platter shaped vessel.

C2.

platter face n. a broad, round, flat face.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun]

muskin1530

vizard1568

monkey-face?1589

chitty-face1601

angel face1605

smock-face1605

fish-facea1625

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baby facea1684

crab face1706

hatchet face1707

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pudding face1748

dough face1755

Madonna face1790

company face1798

moon-face1822

pug-facea1845

puss1844

frog-face1872

bun-face1913

bitch face1969

1631 P. Fletcher Sicelides iv. vi O platter face! O oyster eyes!

1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 116 Her pale, full moon, platter face.

1723 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Debates II. 55 How broad your Platter-Face was grown, and what a Nose you had thereon.

1834 New-England Mag. Jan. 22 Fat men are always garrulous... You will never find one of portly belly, platter face, and mammoth limb, who talks in monosyllables.

a1994 G. Fischer in E. K. Sedgwick Gary in Your Pocket (1996) 97 She had a platter face and heavy features.

platter-faced adj. having a face like a platter; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]

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fish-faced1963

1533 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge 199 b That reed heeded, grey eyed, plater~faced, and hawkenosed wenche.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iv. ii. 155 Chinese, who are White, Platter-fac'd, and Little-eyed, tolerated on account of embracing Christianity.

1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 391 The Platter-fac'd Deity Bacchus.

1834 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 7 Holland is but a platter-faced..country, after all.

2002 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 28 June d3 The platter-faced mug of Arnold, star of ‘Hey Arnold! The Movie’, is topped by twin geysers of blond shock-locks.

platter foot n. a flat foot.

ΚΠ

1727 W. Somervile Occas. Poems 70 His Wattles hang upon his stiffen'd Band, his platter Feet upon the Trigger stand.

1897 F. T. Jane Lordship xix. 213 She..set out as brave a platter-foot as a man could wish for to see.

1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Sept. b9/2 He doesn't have a great big platter foot, the way grass horses are supposed to.

platter pull n. a ski lift in which an oval disc-shaped seat is connected to the cable by a pole.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski-lift

T-bar1889

tow1937

chair-lift1940

ski-lift1940

ski tow1942

skimobile1946

platter pull1949

Poma1954

telecabine1954

gondola lift1957

1949 N.Y. Times 23 Dec. 24/6 Concord Ski Center in Kiamesha Lake is instituting a ‘platter-pull’ uphill contrivance for skiers.

1970 M. Bennett How to ski just Little Bit ii. 87 A platter pull, sometimes also called a poma, looks as if you took a T-bar, bent it a little, cut the crosspiece off, and attached instead a flat, slightly oval disc approximately six inches in diameter.

1997 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 1 Nov. t7 Snowmass has installed a platter-pull to carry the intrepid from the top of The Big Burn to the Cirque.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	platter
释义	plattern.¹ Brit. /ˈplatə/, U.S. /ˈplædər/ Forms: Middle English platere, Middle English platir, Middle English plattar, Middle English platyr, Middle English–1500s plater, 1500s blatter, 1500s plather, 1500s– platter; Scottish pre-1700 1900s– plaitter, 1700s– platter, 1900s– plaeter (Shetland); Irish English 1800s plathearès (Wexford, plural). Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymons: French plater, platel. Etymology: Probably < Anglo-Norman plater (late 13th cent. or earlier), variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French platel serving dish (see plateau n.¹). Compare post-classical Latin platera dish, platter (a1276, 1342 in British sources). 1. a. Originally: a large, flat dish or plate, esp. for food. Later also: the quantity contained on a platter; a plateful; (chiefly North American, usually with modifier denoting the type of food being served) a main dish with accompaniments, served on a platter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate disha700 scuttlec1050 trencherc1308 plattera1325 paten?1340 esquele1371 skelec1400 plat1415 plate?c1450 skewel1567 trencher-plate1580 goggan1586 trench1602 table plate1669 mazarine1673 discus1680 wearing plate1683 silver plate1710 nappy1731 roundel1797 muffin1820 entrée dish1846 pinax1858 a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 818 (MED) Þulke here Þat arecheþ wiþ me his hond in þe platere, He me wole sulle & take. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Matt. xxiii. 25 Woo to ȝou..ipocritis, that maken clene that thing of the cuppe and plater [L. paropsidis] that is with outforth. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 153 Þe grettest prelate..lays it apon a grete plater of siluer. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iii. 37 Ete his mete oute of platers and disshes of tree and of wode. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xiv. f. xx Geve me here Ihon baptistes heed in a platter. 1591 Inventory of Robert Howldsworth 25 Feb. in R. W. Ambler et al. Farmers & Fishermen (1987) 87 Itm. one chardger and vj puter platters and xiiij puter dishes a bassen xv porringers. 1608 J. Smith True Relation (1907) 45 Each morning 3. women presented me three great platters of fine bread, more venison then ten men could devour I had. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xvii. 146 Fish coming out of a pan is not to be covered with a platter, lest the vapour congeled in the platter drop down again upon the fish. 1750 G. G. Beekman Let. 27 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1290 No platters but Lett them be hallow ware. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 11 While his lov'd partner..Displays her cleanly platter on the board. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 58 Half a dozen great Delft platters, hung..by way of pictures. 1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains I. i. vii. 174 The girls..returned, each bearing a platter of fruit, which they placed before me. 1956 A. J. Cronin Crusader's Tomb 188 Another cup had been brought and with perfect courtesy he poured coffee for Stephen, proffered the platter of rolls. 1981 Cook's Mag. Nov. 52/1 A potato chain is an impressive garnish. Made from a white potato it can be deep fried and used to add flourish to a meat platter. 2003 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 Oct. 4 The Mexican steak platter... In addition to the six ounce sirloin, the plate comes loaded with a chile relleno with green chile sauce, a red chile cheese enchilada and plenty of beans and rice. b. to hand (something to a person) on a (silver) platter: to hand (something to a person) without requiring that person to make any effort or go to any trouble over the matter; to present (something) without it having been asked or sought for; to present in a complete or fully accomplished form. Cf. to hand (also give) (something) to (a person) on a plate at plate n. 27b. ΚΠ 1896 Washington Post 28 Feb. 6/2 Will he take it [sc. the nomination], even if it be handed to him on a silver platter..with the prayers and the solicitations of his fellow Democrats? 1918 T. Wolfe Let. 18 Feb. (1958) 8 You don't get anything handed to you on a silver platter. 1960 G. Sanders Mem. Professional Cad i. vii. 55 I was otherwise engaged at the time building a telescope in my back garden and being, by vocation, a dilettante, this interested me far more than the golden future which Mr. Mayer was going to offer me on a silver platter. 2004 Progress Leader (Australia) (Nexis) 10 Aug. 81 Everything the lifestyle guru ordered is handed to you on a silver platter at this address. c. [Rhyming slang.] In full platters of meat. Feet. Cf. plate n. 28b(b). ΚΠ 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 227 Plates of meat,..= feet. On dit aussi platters of meat. 1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 16/1 Platters..,big feet. 1960 J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 108/2 Platters of meat, feet. 20 C., a form of plates..and not used in Cockney circles. 1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 92 Platters, feet. 2. Baseball slang. = home plate n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] > slab marking home base home1845 home base1855 plate1867 home plate1869 rubber1889 pan1891 platter1892 1892 Washington Post 22 June 6/3 Comiskey's bunt sent the winning run over the platter. 1915 C. Mathewson Catcher Craig v. 64 Porter scooped up the ball on the run, turned swiftly, and threw to the plate. And Jimmy Benson, astride the platter, caught it waist-high. 1973 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 27 May 67/7 Two runs crossed the platter. 3. a. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A gramophone record. Cf. plate n. 28. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc phonograph record1878 record1878 disc1879 gramophone record1888 title1908 platter1926 phonodisc1929 release1932 wax1932 plate1935 waxing1936 audio disc1944 cut1949 sounds1955 twelve-inch1976 vinyl1976 1926 J. J. Finerty Criminalese 45 Platter, gramophone record. 1935 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 38/1 There ought to be a hot coupling on every platter. 1967 ‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon xviii. 184 I went into Fink Roth's pad and found treasures. Good old platters and stamps. I sold them. Got a good price for the records. 1993 Rolling Stone 8 July 25/1 His fourteen-year-old son's fascination with a Jimi Hendrix best-of collection that had just been released..prompted him to dig out some old platters by Moby Grape, the Incredible String Band, Traffic and others that had shaped him in his pre-Zeppelin days. b. The rotating disc of a turntable unit, on which a record is placed for playing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > turntable platter1975 deck1989 1975 Gramophone Jan. 1297 (advt.) With the heavy platter and extra thick turn-table mat, our final figures are impressive. 1991 What Hi-Fi? Oct. 211/1 Belt-drive A form of turntable utilising a belt to transmit drive from the motor pulley to the platter on which the record sits. 4. Computing. A round plate coated with magnetic material, on which data is stored in a hard disk drive. ΚΠ 1974 Sci. Amer. July 73/2 (advt.) With a disc drive of one fixed and one removable platter, the Mass Memory can store 2.4 million 8-bit bytes on each platter—as much as can be stored on 38 magnetic tape cassettes. 1982 Which Computer? June 93/3 It comprises six 10½ in platters, with a combination of 20 fixed read/write heads, and a capacity of 474 MB of storage. 1998 Daily Tel. 17 Sept. (Connected section) 2/4 The world's smallest and lightest hard disk drive, with a disk platter the size of a large coin, has been developed by IBM. 2004 Mix (Nexis) 1 July 8 Disk drives have..one or more ‘platters’ of polished rigid disks made of aluminum or glass, coated with ferromagnetic material. Compounds C1. a. † platter case n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §303 In the kitchen..were two settles with lockers, a dresser with drawers, two cup~boards, and one platter case. platter mat n. ΚΠ 1909 Oxnard (Calif.) Courier 13 Aug. 2/1 (advt.) One set of Three Oblong or Round Straw Platter Mats 25c a set. 1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 26 Nov. 38 a Other Oracle innovations have been copied by virtually every other turntable manufacturer with high-end aspirations, such as the smooth platter mat (previous mats were ridged). † platter mouth n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xv. f. 194 At his nosethrills and His platter mouth did puffe out part of sea vppon the land. 1674 Hogan-Moganides 40 The platter Mouth and Face. This brats Face! 'Twere e'en the same as Owll, or Cats Face. platter plate n. ΚΠ 1930 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 11 July 7/5 A Platter Plate at 50c. 2003 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. 11 It began a couple of years ago when tourists asked if they might have a superb platter plate as a souvenir of their visit. b. platter-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1830 in S. T. Coleridge Shorter Wks. & Fragm. (1995) II. 1489 The Ocean was the supposed circular Rim of the platter-shaped Earth. 1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond I. xv. 224 He and the dog took alternate bites off a platter-shaped cake. 1994 Amer. Antiq. 59 343 (table) A platter shaped vessel. C2. platter face n. a broad, round, flat face. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun] muskin1530 vizard1568 monkey-face?1589 chitty-face1601 angel face1605 smock-face1605 fish-facea1625 platter face1631 ammunition face1649 horn-facea1668 baby facea1684 crab face1706 hatchet face1707 splatter-face1707 paddock-face1724 pudding face1748 dough face1755 Madonna face1790 company face1798 moon-face1822 pug-facea1845 puss1844 frog-face1872 bun-face1913 bitch face1969 1631 P. Fletcher Sicelides iv. vi O platter face! O oyster eyes! 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 116 Her pale, full moon, platter face. 1723 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Debates II. 55 How broad your Platter-Face was grown, and what a Nose you had thereon. 1834 New-England Mag. Jan. 22 Fat men are always garrulous... You will never find one of portly belly, platter face, and mammoth limb, who talks in monosyllables. a1994 G. Fischer in E. K. Sedgwick Gary in Your Pocket (1996) 97 She had a platter face and heavy features. platter-faced adj. having a face like a platter; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1533 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge 199 b That reed heeded, grey eyed, plater~faced, and hawkenosed wenche. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iv. ii. 155 Chinese, who are White, Platter-fac'd, and Little-eyed, tolerated on account of embracing Christianity. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 391 The Platter-fac'd Deity Bacchus. 1834 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 7 Holland is but a platter-faced..country, after all. 2002 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 28 June d3 The platter-faced mug of Arnold, star of ‘Hey Arnold! The Movie’, is topped by twin geysers of blond shock-locks. platter foot n. a flat foot. ΚΠ 1727 W. Somervile Occas. Poems 70 His Wattles hang upon his stiffen'd Band, his platter Feet upon the Trigger stand. 1897 F. T. Jane Lordship xix. 213 She..set out as brave a platter-foot as a man could wish for to see. 1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Sept. b9/2 He doesn't have a great big platter foot, the way grass horses are supposed to. platter pull n. a ski lift in which an oval disc-shaped seat is connected to the cable by a pole. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski-lift T-bar1889 tow1937 chair-lift1940 ski-lift1940 ski tow1942 skimobile1946 platter pull1949 Poma1954 telecabine1954 gondola lift1957 1949 N.Y. Times 23 Dec. 24/6 Concord Ski Center in Kiamesha Lake is instituting a ‘platter-pull’ uphill contrivance for skiers. 1970 M. Bennett How to ski just Little Bit ii. 87 A platter pull, sometimes also called a poma, looks as if you took a T-bar, bent it a little, cut the crosspiece off, and attached instead a flat, slightly oval disc approximately six inches in diameter. 1997 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 1 Nov. t7 Snowmass has installed a platter-pull to carry the intrepid from the top of The Big Burn to the Cirque. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † plattern.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plat v.³, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < plat v.³ + -er suffix¹. Compare earlier plaiter n. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (plæ·təɹ) /ˈplætə(r)/. Obsolete. A person who plaits or weaves something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [noun] > plaiting > one who or that which plaiter1755 platter1818 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Platter. 2 [from To plat.] One who plats or weaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.¹a1325n.²1818
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