Usually means: Layer or strand of material.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word ply:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ply: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ply, ply: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ply, ply: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ply: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ply: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ply, ply: Wordnik
  7. ply: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ply: Wiktionary
  9. ply: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ply: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ply: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ply, ply: Dictionary.com
  13. ply (n.), ply (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ply: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PLY (Python Lex-Yacc), PLY (file format), Ply (chess), Ply (game theory), Ply (layer), Ply: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ply: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ply: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ply: Rhymezone
  19. ply: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ply: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ply: Free Dictionary
  22. ply: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ply: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. -ply: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ply: Corporate Apparel Glossary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. ply: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ply: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ply: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLY: Acronym Finder
  2. PLY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. ply: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ply: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ply: Backgammon

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. PLY: Glossary on Terminology related to Nuts and Bolts
  6. Ply: Construction Glossary
  7. Popular Cross Stitch Terms (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Paper Making (No longer online)

(Note: See plied as well.)

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:  (transitive, intransitive, 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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