Plying has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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1. | He stops, and from Achates hastes to seize / his chance-brought arms, the arrows and the bow, / the branching antlers smites, and lays the leader low. / Next fall the herd; and through the leafy glade / in mingled rout he drives the scattered train, / plying his shafts. | |
2. | Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over. |