Usually means: Twisted together to form yarn.
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  1. plied: Merriam-Webster
  2. plied: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plied, plied: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plied: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plied: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plied, plied: Wordnik
  7. plied: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. plied: Wiktionary
  9. Plied, plied: Dictionary.com
  10. plied: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Plied: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. plied: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Plied: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. plied: FreeDictionary.org
  15. plied: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. plied: Legal dictionary

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  1. plied: Encyclopedia

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  1. plied: Idioms

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  1. Plied: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ply)

noun:  A layer of material.
noun:  A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
noun:  (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
noun:  (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
verb:  (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
verb:  (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
verb:  (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
verb:  (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
verb:  (ambitransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
noun:  A bent; a direction.
noun:  (colloquial) Short for plywood. [(uncountable) Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.]
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