Read full poem →Where, under mulberry-branches, the diligent rivulet sparkles,
Or amid cotton and maize peasants their water-works ply,
Where, over fig-tree and orange in tier upon tier still repeated,
Dictionary Entry
A layer of material.
In a Sentence
“two-ply toilet paper”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. plybetween ply
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Poetry examples for “ply”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Let the old boy, your son, ply his old task,
Turn the stale prologue to some painted mask;
Read full poem →From crudeness ripeness mellow and sanitive;
Ever mine own, till Death shall ply his sieve;
And still mine own, when saints break grave and sing.
Read full poem →Kind, talkative and dear
As now thou sitt'st to ply
The fireside tune
Read full poem →help. Look not behind thee, then, at its unavoidable degradation;
but take courage, ply thy legs with vigor, and scud for the
hippodrome! Remember that thou art Antiochus Epiphanes. Antiochus
Read full poem →They find the good and destroy the ill,
And they bend and ply
The laws of nature out of a will
Read full poem →Sexton, ply your trade!
In a shower of gravel
Read full poem →But then, what though the mystic Three
Around me ply their merry trade? --
And Charon soon may carry me
Read full poem →And we, whose ways were unlike here,
May then more neighboring courses ply;
May to each other be brought near,