Different styles of pliers perform different functions including holding and gripping small objects, bending wire or sheet metal, cutting wire or sheet metal and pulling small nails out of lumber.
Plinth
(1) The square block at the base of a pedestal or column. (2) A course of brick or stone along the base of a wall. (3) A flat block at the base of door trim. (4) The base that holds a statue.
Plot
The land on which a building stands.
Plot plan
Scale diagram showing the proposed or existing use of a specific parcel of land; the location of the structure in comparison to the boundaries of the property, utility services, compass directions, etc.
Plottage
The combining of several smaller contiguous land lot to make a larger, more useful and valuable piece.
Plottage value
The result of combining two or more parcels of land so that the one larger parcel has more value than the sum of the individual parcels.
Plough
Cutting a groove along the wood grain of a board, like the rectangular groove that is but into a piece of wood for the insertion of the end of another piece.
Plow
To cut a groove running the same direction as the grain of the wood.
Plucked finish limestone
Rough textured limestone.
Plug
(1) An object used to stop up a hole or gap. (2) Wood or other filler used in filling a hole. (3) An electrical device (male fitting) with projecting prongs, to be fitted into an outlet to make contact and provide electrical power. (4) A small wedge or segment cut from something. (5) Threaded fitting to screw in to the end of a female pipe-fitting to seal it closed.
