Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PLOT
PLOT, n.1 [a different orthography of Plat.]
- A plat or small extent of ground; as, a garden plot. – Locke. It was a chosen plot of fertile land. – Spenser. When we mean to build, / We first survey the plot. – Sidney.
- A plantation laid out. – Sidney.
- A plan or scheme. [Qu. the next word.] – Spenser.
- In surveying, a plan or draught of a field, farm or manor surveyed and delineated on paper.
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