plate up

verb

1. to put food on a plate, ready for serving

Example Sentences

"Ye needna lick the posies aff," the wifie said, good humoredly, as she picked the plate up to wash it.

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Now, feeling the collar under the thatch, he slipped it out and brought the brass plate up to the light.

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It floated the plate up, the air hit the vanes and spun the plate—and it ran as sweet as honey!

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His thin hand, on which veins rose in a bas relief, held the plate up tremulously against the light.

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My lifelong ambition was to make ships from the keel-plate up.

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