Crossword-Solution: PLY 3 letters, 221 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Ply v. t. To bend.
Ply v. t. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or
with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply
one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.
Ply v. t. To employ diligently; to use steadily.
Ply v. t. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.
Ply v. i. To bend; to yield.
Ply v. i. To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to
do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer
plies between certain ports.
Ply v. i. To work to windward; to beat.
Ply v. A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.
Ply v. Bent; turn; direction; bias.

We have 221 clues for the answer “PLY”

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*Work at, as a trade 1 answer
A single thickness. 1 answer
A twist, as of yarn. 1 answer
A unit of yarn. 1 answer
Angel Soft layer 1 answer
Ask persistently 1 answer
Bath tissue feature 1 answer
Bath tissue layer 1 answer
Bath tissue packaging word 1 answer
Bias-__ tire 1 answer
Bounty unit 1 answer
Carry on, as a trade 1 answer
Charmin layer 1 answer
Cloth layer 1 answer
Conduct a trade 1 answer
Cottonelle layer 1 answer
Do work with. 1 answer
Dryer sheet thickness 1 answer
Employ busily 1 answer
Factor in the price of paper towels 1 answer
Fold or plait. 1 answer
Labor at 1 answer
Laminated layer 1 answer
Layer of a tissue 1 answer
Layer of cloth. 1 answer
Layer of paper or wood 1 answer
Layer on a roll 1 answer
Layer or thickness 1 answer
One of several layers 1 answer
One of several layers of cloth 1 answer
One strand of yarn. 1 answer
One thickness 1 answer
Panel layer 1 answer
Paper gauge 1 answer
Paper layer 1 answer
Paper tissue layer 1 answer
Paper towel feature 1 answer
Paper towel layer 1 answer
Paper towel measure 1 answer
Paper towel thickness 1 answer
Paper towel thickness unit 1 answer
Paper-tissue feature 1 answer
Paper-towel layer 1 answer
Paperboard thickness 1 answer
Perform diligently 1 answer
Perform diligently, as a trade 1 answer
Perform, as one's trade 1 answer
Pilot a ferry 1 answer
Practice diligently, as a trade 1 answer
Practice, as a trade 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLY (5)

Relent then and repent thee of thy wrath; For, if one young in years may claim some sense, I’ll say ’tis best of all to be endowed With absolute wisdom; but, if that’s denied, (And nature takes not readily that ply) Next wise is he who lists to sage advice.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Thinking it but a native trading boat, so many of which ply the southern seas, Virginia viewed its approach with but idle curiosity.
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
The sea was incessantly ploughed by the steamers that ply between New York or Boston and the Gulf of Mexico, and overrun day and night by the little schooners coasting about the several parts of the American coast.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
The bedroom could boast a carpet, three-ply ingrain, the design being bunches of red and green flowers in yellow baskets on a white ground.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006

Quotes with PLY (3)

... the priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstrap-lifting have as their distinguishing characteristic that they do very little lifting at their own bootstraps, and less at any other man's. Now and then you may see one bend and give a delicate tug, of a purely symbolical character: as when the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Bootstrap-lifters comes once a year to wash the feet of the poor; or when the Sunday-school Superintendent of the…
Upton Sinclair The Profits of Religion
This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.
Ilona Andrews Fate's Edge
These are lines from my asteroid-impact novel, Regolith: Just because there are no laws against stupidity doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be punished. I haven’t faced rejection this brutal since I was single. He smelled trouble like a fart in the shower. If this was a kiss of gratitude, then she must have been very grateful. Not since Bush and Cheney have so few spent so much so fast for so long for so little. As a nympho for mind-fucks, Lisa took to politics like a pig to mud. She…
Brent Reilly
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 386 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).