1894 Brewer’s / P / Plét
is a lash like a knout, but not made of raw hides. (Russian, pletu, a whip.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.