1. to work with or at diligently; employ busily; use: to ply the needle.
2. to carry on, practice, or pursue busily or steadily: to ply a trade.
3. to treat with or apply to (something) repeatedly (often followed by with): to ply a fire with fresh fuel.
4. to assail persistently: to ply horses with a whip.
5. to supply with or offer something pressingly to: to ply a person with drink.
6. to address (someone) persistently or urgently, as with questions, solicitations, etc.; importune.
7. to pass over or along (a river, stream, etc.) steadily or on a regular basis: boats that ply the Mississippi.

8. to run or travel regularly over a fixed course or between certain places, as a boat, bus, etc.
9. to perform one's work or office busily or steadily: to ply with the oars; to ply at a trade.

1. a thickness or layer.
2. a layer of reinforcing fabric for a tire.
3. a unit of yarn: single ply.
4. one of the sheets of veneer that are glued together to make plywood.
5. plywood.
6. bent, bias, or inclination.

7. to bend, fold, or mold.

8. to bend, incline, or yield.

1. to carry on, pursue, or work at (a job, trade, etc)
2. to manipulate or wield (a tool)
3. to sell (goods, wares, etc), esp at a regular place
4. to provide (with) or subject (to) repeatedly or persistently
5. to perform or work steadily or diligently
6. (esp of a ship) to travel regularly along (a route) or in (an area)

• a layer, fold, or thickness, as of cloth, wood, yarn, etc
• (in combination)
2. a thin sheet of wood glued to other similar sheets to form plywood
3. one of the strands twisted together to make rope, yarn, etc

4. to twist together (two or more single strands) to make yarn

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