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Ploy   Listen
verb
Ploy  v. i.  (Mil.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; the opposite of deploy.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ploy" Quotes from Famous Books



... women who now sit decently spinning in Kilmaclavers have heard it. But woman may hear it and lay it up in her soul and bide at hame, while a man, if he get but a glisk of it in his fool's heart, must needs up and awa' to the warld's end on some daft-like ploy. But gang your ways and fare-ye-weel. My cousin Francie heard it, and he went north wi' a white cockade in his bonnet and a sword at his side, singing 'Charlie's come hame'. And Tam Crichtoun o' the Bourhopehead got a sough o' it one simmers' morning, ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan

... natural strength and will. All other trades have their limits, when a man may tell himself, 'That's the best I can do,' and shut his book or set down the tool with no disgrace in the relinquishment. But a soger's is a different ploy; he must stand stark against all encountering, nor cry a parley even with the lance at his throat. Oh, man! man! I had a delight in it in my time for all its trials. I carried claymore (so to name it, ours was a less handsome weapon, ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro

... the ha' came the picture—and I ken weel how it came there—to gie them a warning that pride wad get a fa'. But there's as queer a ploy, cummers, as ony o' thae, that's gaun on even now in the burial vault yonder: ye saw twall mourners, wi' crape and cloak, gang down ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott



Words linked to "Ploy" :   input, remark, stratagem, manoeuvre, tactical manoeuvre, maneuver



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