intransitive verb. To use diligently; wield.

intransitive verb. To engage in diligently; practice: synonym: handle.

intransitive verb. To traverse or sail over regularly.

intransitive verb. To continue offering something to (someone); ensure that (someone) is abundantly served.

intransitive verb. To ask questions or make requests of (someone) insistently.

intransitive verb. To traverse a route or course regularly.

intransitive verb. To perform or work diligently or regularly.

intransitive verb. To work against the wind by a zigzag course; tack.

transitive verb. To join together, as by molding or twisting.

transitive verb. To double over (cloth, for example).

noun. A layer, as of doubled-over cloth or of paperboard.

noun. One of the sheets of wood glued together to form plywood.

noun. A layer of rubber-coated fabric, often of nylon or polyester cords, forming the body of an automobile tire.

noun. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn, rope, or thread. Often used in combination.

noun. A bias; an inclination.

noun. A fold; a thickness: often used in composition to designate the number of thicknesses or twists of which anything is made: as, three-ply thread; three-ply carpets.

noun. Bent; turn; direction; bias.

1 To bend; mold; shape.

To draw: work.

To use or employ diligently; keep on using with diligence and persistence; apply one's self steadily to; keep busy with; toil at.

To practise or perform with diligence and persistence; pursue steadily: as, to ply one's trade.

To attack or assail briskly, repeatedly, or persistently.

To address with importunity or persistent solicitation; urge, or keep on urging or soliciting, as for a favor.

To offer with persistency or frequency; press upon for acceptance; continue to present or supply: as, to ply one with drink, or with flattery.

To apply; devote with persistency or perseverance.

To exert; acquit.

To bend: yield; incline.

To keep at work or in action; busy one's self; work steadily; be employed.

To proceed in haste; sally forth.

To go back and forth or backward and forward over the same course; especially, to run or sail regularly along the same course, or between two fixed places or ports; make more or less regular trips: as, the boats that ply on the Hudson; the steamers that ply between New York and Fall River; the stage plied between Concord and Boston: said both of the vessels or vehicles that make the trips and of those who sail or run them.

Nautical, to beat; tack; work to windward: as, to ply northward.

To offer one's services for trips or jobs, as boatmen, hackmen, carriers, etc.

transitive verb. To bend.

transitive verb. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately.

transitive verb. To employ diligently; to use steadily.

transitive verb. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.

noun. A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.

noun. Bent; turn; direction; bias.

intransitive verb. To bend; to yield.

intransitive verb. To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth.

intransitive verb. To work to windward; to beat.

verb. to bend; to fold.

verb. to flex.

noun. A layer of material. (two-ply toilet paper)

noun. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.

noun. Plywood.

noun. In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made by one of the players.

noun. State, condition.

verb. To work at diligently.

verb. To use vigorously.