These are the meanings of the letters PILOTA when you unscramble them.
- Patio (n.)
A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
- Pilot (n.)
An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- Pilot (n.)
Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
- Pilot (n.)
One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
- Pilot (n.)
Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.
- Pilot (n.)
The cowcatcher of a locomotive.
- Pilot (v. t.)
Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
- Pilot (v. t.)
To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
- Plait (n.)
A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
- Plait (n.)
A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
- Plait (v. t.)
To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
- Plait (v. t.)
To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.