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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To plait or interlace (branches or vines, for example), especially in making a hedge or an arbor.
  2. v. To shade or border with interlaced branches or vines.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To unite (the branches of shrubs, vines, etc.) by plaiting, weaving, or braiding together; plash; mingle.
  2. To form by intermingling or interweaving.
  3. To fold, as the arms.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. interlace the shoots of
  2. v. form or weave into a braid or braids

Etymologies

  1. From an Old French variant of plessier ("plash"), from Proto-Romance plessier, from Latin plectō ("weave, plait"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English plechen, from Old North French plechier, probably from Latin plectere; see plek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. plash
  1. interlock
  1. interlace

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  1. lace
  1. twine
  1. intertwine
  1. enlace
  1. interlace
  1. entwine
  1. weave
  1. interweave

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  1. impleach

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  1. should be a swear

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  • yarb Also, citation on tool. Jul 4, 2008

  • yarb The only one left who could use a scythe
    in all Onibury, or pleach a hedge
    the old way: but could not understand
    how the electric cooker worked or
    (and this takes some believing) the light switched on -
    when his wife died he sat in the dark, hungry.

    Dialled the Surgery with my assistance,
    held the phone in two paws like a sad dog
    gnawing a bone, not knowing which end spoke.

    - Peter Reading, Bereft, in Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties (1981) Jun 22, 2008

  • yarb See also citation on pleached. Apr 26, 2008

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