Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To plait or interlace (branches or vines, for example), especially in making a hedge or an arbor.
- v. To shade or border with interlaced branches or vines.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To unite (the branches of shrubs, vines, etc.) by plaiting, weaving, or braiding together; plash; mingle.
- To form by intermingling or interweaving.
- To fold, as the arms.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.
WordNet 3.0
- v. interlace the shoots of
- v. form or weave into a braid or braids
Etymologies
- From an Old French variant of plessier ("plash"), from Proto-Romance plessier, from Latin plectō ("weave, plait"). (Wiktionary)
- 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)
Examples
“Blanched men, starved women, whom no arts can pleach.”
“It's probably a pleach as it's a morph of the two tasty stone fruits.”
“Employing one of three horticultural training methods espalier, pollard or pleach may be the answer to a space problem.”
“Without Title teems with words like “atrorubent,” “barathea,” “Pasiphaean,” “haruspex,”” pleach-toned” and “shotten.””
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pleach’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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connection
connect, link, intertwine, interlace, connective, conjunction, joined, coadunate, connexion, interdigitate, ligature, transilient and 39 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Nabokov vocabulary
verisimilitude, geminate, pedantic, intervestibular, equilibrist, nictitating, anastomosis, quiddity, torus, cacahuete, undulation, pensum and 135 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
Tweets
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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