platting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of plat

plural plattings

1. Any plaited material, specifically strips of bark, cane, straw, or similar material used for making hats or the like.
2. The act of plaiting, forming platted material
3. The act of mapping an area.

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   All the Calias lumber yards owned branch yards at Amro and everybody continued to do a flourishing business. The Amroites paid little attention to the platting of the townsite to the north, nor made a single effort to ascertain which survey the railroad would follow, but continued to boast that Amro would get the road.

   1913, Oscar Devereaux Micheaux, The Conquest; the Story of a Negro Pioneer, Chapter 30