plate
noun
a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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"Lend me your goat, and when I come back from the Hill of Horns I will plate his horns with gold and shoe his hooves with silver."
From The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum