A groove may be cut in the mill-board from the hole to the edge before covering, to make a depression in which the plait will lie, and a depression may be scooped out of the inner surface of the board to receive the ends.
The three doubled strips are then plaited and the end of the plait put through a hole in the lower board of the book about half an inch from the edge, and glued down inside.
And the Maid then to show me plaiting, and how that we could work in the grass piece by piece, so that we should plait unto any length that we to need.
And when we had gone all about the island, and found naught that should bind, the Maid to say with a pretty jesting that we should cut her hair, and plait it to be for cords.
And afterward she cut a lock of my hair, and a lock from her own dear head; and she did plait the two locks together, so that our hair did blend and be together; and afterward she hid it in her bosom.
And afterward, we to plait all that day, and did also finish the armour; and did be content and utter happy.
Intemese continued to plait his basket with all his might, and would not come to our religious service.
They plait their hair in three-fold cords, and lay them carefully down around the sides of the head.
Then she was asleep herself--and in the faintly moonlit room with the long soft plait trailing over her shoulder looked even more like an angel than before.
She held the end of the long fair soft plait hanging over her shoulder and her eyes were full of reproach.
I shall," said Betty, and gave her morsel of a plait a convincing pull.
I thought you were going to wear your hair on the top of your head," she said, surveying Dot's plait somewhat contemptuously.
The girl's face was like a tender blush rose; her eyes were shining with actual excitement (rare thing in placid Dot), and her hair hung down her back in a thick plait tied with blue ribbon.
Only a little while ago Dot had tripped upstairs, her hair in a golden plait down her back, her dress not so low as her boot-tops by quite three inches.
Her abundant hair, soberly dressed in a soft plait that reached her waist, was of a dull gold that in some lights went to burnished brass.
The soft plaitof her hair was about her further shoulder, hanging down her breast.
In the following July (1811) the West Norfolks proceeded to Colchester via Norfolk, after fifteen months of prison duty and straw-plait destroying.
The prisoners occupied much of their time in straw-plait making; but the quality of their work was so much superior to that of the English that it was forbidden, and consequently destroyed when found.
Sanine looked at her intelligent eyes, and the plait of fair hair falling over her shoulder, which almost made her face attractive.
The long black plaitlay at full length along the white coverlet.
Instead of a fashionable coiffure, she wore her hair in a thick plait hanging down her back.
Away went the salmon, taking out more line than ever this time, the water dripping like a shower of diamonds from the keeper's fingers, as the fine silk plait ran through his hands.
For the fish darted away so furiously that the lad loosed his hold upon the line to a great extent, and contented himself by keeping the hard plait close to the rod, so that it was checked a good deal in running through his hand.
Haue we not eik the stalwart Camylla, Of the famyll and kynrent of Volsca, Ledand thir armyt ostis and stern feildis, In byrnyst plait arrayt and schynand scheldis?
The latter they make in a singularly beautiful style with white and colored straw, which they plait into various figures and patterns--sometimes into names, and even lines of poetry.
They plait it very ingeniously in small tresses, frequently making more than a hundred.
The women plait coarse straw hats, and a kind of mats called petates, which they carry to Lima for sale.
Formerly on arriving at the drying shed the plait was put on rods and thoroughly shaken to cast off as much moisture as possible, and then hung in the air so that the drying might not be too rapid and thus render the plait brittle.
The first parcel of pedale plaitarrived in Great Britain in 1878, and is supposed to have been purchased by Messrs.
This levels up the colour of the plait and intensifies the black; all other colours are simply cleared by steam, and receive no further treatment.
When worked this plait has a very close resemblance to its model, and like all the other hemp plaits, will take a softly brilliant and regular coloured dye.
When spirit polish was first introduced it was very costly, and on the advent of the China plait to these markets, it was found to be rather out of proportion expensive to the very cheap Canton hats.
The plait mill, made of both wood and iron, completes the list of mechanical appliances used in making a straw hat.
Her beautiful hair, which was arranged for the night in one greatplait with the ends loose, hung down to the ground beside her.
But she could not plait it, her hands trembled so, and he was obliged to help her.
They lived for many days like that, their work being to cry every day, and when they came out of school they used to plait and sell their baskets.
Now those girls used to plaitbaskets and sell them.
He had laid aside the basket work altogether; sometimes, when he was feeling over-bored, he would resolve to plait a dozen baskets for the next market day; but very often he did not even finish the first one.
However, he again began toplait baskets and hampers, while denouncing the human race for their neglect.
He would only take to his work when he could no longer do otherwise; then he would hurriedly plait a dozen baskets and go and sell them in the market.
In a short time he learnt to plait baskets and hampers--a coarse and poorly-paid kind of labour which finds a ready market.
The leaves of the tree will be a shade for you, and you can plait them into mats, and make a fan also to fan yourself.
Another plan in searching for an omen was to plait cocoa-nut leaves and cover the middle post of the great house, from the floor to the ridge pole, and there the chiefs sat and watched.
Lay the centre of a generous piece of cotton over the head of the second clothespin, plait the loose ends around the pin, and fasten with a string, making the edge of the tail in a line with the opening of the prongs of the pin.
Bend back the ends of the house and in the middle of each end take a little plait from top to bottom.
The moment I have an opportunity I will set about constructing a tabernacle, larger than the one I arranged at Ramalhaô, and indulge myself in every variety of plait and fold that can possibly be invented.
I never beheld so gorgeous a group of wedding-garments before; there is every variety of fold and plait that can possibly be imagined.
To keep the plait clear, the end has to be continually dipped through the first bight made (Fig.
Another method of shortening a small handy rope is known as the twist or plait knot.
Then by taking a over b and c over b, and so on, taking the outside one on each side alternately over the middle one, the plait is formed.
The plait was introduced into the architecture of the time, as is shown by a Norman moulding at Durham.
But now I command you toplait me a rope out of the sand.
He said, "You trifle with me; and unless you plait me such a rope I will not pay you the revenues of Egypt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plait" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
