pleyt

plural pleyts

1. archaicnauticalA riverboat.

   The model on display belongs to the family of the "pleyt" or "pleitscip"."

   2011, Money and Beauty, Giunti Editore, →ISBN, page 186

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   In the second group a variety of ships may be placed: a boeyer, a pleyt, a krayer, an ever, a cogge, a bark, a hulk, and from the middle of the 15th century onwards a carvel.

   1954, Nelly Johanna Martina Kerling, Commercial Relations of Holland and Zeeland with England from the Late 13th Century to the Close of the Middle Ages

plural pleyts

1. historicalA whip, as an instrument of punishment or torture in Russia.

   The lady was publicly knouted (flogged with an instrument of torture called a pleyt), had her tongue cut out, flung, a piece of quivering and bleeding flesh, on a cart, and banished to Siberia.

   1914, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The Life of Catherine the Great of Russia

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   In Russia, the pleyt is a terrible form of punishment, which is still, I believe, administered in rare instances in Siberia. It is not ten years ago that a woman was flogged to death in Siberia.

   1896, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, Round about Armenia: The Record of a Journey Across the Balkans Through Turkey, the Caucasus, and Persia in 1895

   In 1836, near the town of Krasnophinsk, in the province of Perm, a man, about sixty years of age, was arrested as a vagrant. He received twenty blows with the pleyt or knout, and was sent to Siberia.

   1908, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, volume 1, page 138