platte

1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete form of plate.

   It[em] to severall platte cups and spoones / It[em] to severall pewter dishes

   1649–1660, Middlesex County in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: Records of Probate and Administration, October 1649-December 1660, page 384

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   […] a cotte of platte, a sallet, a halbert, a byll, sworde, and dager, 1l. 6s. 8d.; […]

   1589, “Chronicon Pretiosum Snathense; or Lists of Prices of Various Kinds of Agricultural Produce, and of other Articles, in the Ecclesiastical Peculiar of Snaith, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. […]”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume XXI, London: John William Parker and Son, […], published December 1858, page 411, column 2

   Two hundred half Lucoryes, half hundred English hupes, one bruing paune two smale paunes, one brass potte, five chests one trunke fiue brass candlesticks, two coops of platte, two Juells of gould two ringes of gould, two cupperts, tenn poundes worth of triffling in merchant ware, twelve poundes in money, seaven hundred sheepskins, two Spanis tables three quarter hundred Riess three barrells of beare malt twelve peeter dishes, two pattingers, two smale savcers with other smale trifflings.

   1619, Edward Butler, quotee, “Clonmel 1603-1641”, in William P. Burke, History of Clonmel, Waterford: […] N. Harvey & Co. for the Clonmel Library Committee, published 1907, page 45

plural Plattes

1. A surname from German.