Hypertext Webster Gateway: "platter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Platter \Plat"ter\, n. [From {Plat} to braid.]
One who plats or braids.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Platter \Plat"ter\, n. [Probably fr. OF. platel, F. plateau. See
{Plateau}.]
A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is
brought to the table.
The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large,
smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef.
--Sir W.
Scott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
platter
n 1: a large shallow dish used for serving food
2: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous
grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating
while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: {phonograph
record}, {phonograph recording}, {record}, {disk}, {disc}]
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