plashoot

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  1. A fence made of branches of trees interwoven. Woodcocks arrive first on the north coast, where almost every hedge serveth for a road, and every plashoot for spingles to take them. R. Carew. Survey of Cornwall, p. 24.

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  1. apparently for *plashet, from plash + -et, the term, accommodation to shoot (young twig).
 

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