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Platting :: Platting (n.) Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like..

Gasket :: Gasket (n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps..

Leghorn :: Leghorn (n.) A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation..

Dog's-tail Grass :: Dog's-tail grass (n.) A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait; -- called also goldseed..

Replait :: Replait (v. t.) To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again..

Gasket :: Gasket (n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.

Gauffering :: Gauffering (n.) A mode of plaiting or fluting.

Ruche :: Ruche (n.) A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets..

Poking-stick :: Poking-stick (n.) A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs..

Wimple :: Wimple (v. t.) To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water..

Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..

Puttyroot :: Puttyroot (n.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve..

Plait :: Plait (v. t.) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope..

Rumple :: Rumple (n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle.

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t.) To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle..

Symplectic :: Symplectic (a.) Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium..

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name..

Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp..

Kilted :: Kilted (a.) Plaited after the manner of kilting.

Plectile :: Plectile (a.) Woven; plaited.

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