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 Planchin, or Planchen. A plank or wood floor. In "Arden of Feversham" is this expression "Whilst on the planchers." In Celtic Cornish planken, or "plynken" means a plank, a board.

Plashet, or Ploshet A moist, watery place. A quagmire.

Plat. A plot, or small piece of ground. (In Celtic Cornish, plat means flat, also in Chaucer.)

Platted down. Flattened down, pressed down. Plat-footed. Flat-footed, splay-footed. Plat or platte. Chaucer. Plat is a Celtic Cornish word meaning flat, splay.

Plethan. To braid, or plait. Polwhele. (In Celtic Cornish it is plegyej.

Pliskin. An egg-shell. A Celtic Cornish word. Polwhele.

Plod, or plad. Plaid, or check-pattern.

Plosh. A puddle, a messy, dirty place. Plos is a Celtic Cornish word for dirt, filth, &c. Plosher. A half grown bream. M.A.C.

Ploshy. Splashy, sloppy, wet and miry. In Celtic Cornish. ploseCj foul, filthy.

PlufF, Pelf, or Pilf. Fine, or broken fragments of fur, feathers, &c. Also the fur or Jine hairy coat of an animal, as of a hare, &c. In Celtic Cornish pluven means a feather, a pen, pliv or pluv, feathers, and 'plufoc, a bolster.