Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To plait or interlace (branches or vines, for example), especially in making a hedge or an arbor.
- transitive verb To shade or border with interlaced branches or vines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to
plash ; tointerlock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb interlace the shoots of
- verb form or weave into a braid or braids
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Blanched men, starved women, whom no arts can pleach.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Blanched men, starved women, whom no arts can pleach.
A Reading of Life, Other Poems George Meredith 1868
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Blanched men, starved women, whom no arts can pleach.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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It's probably a pleach as it's a morph of the two tasty stone fruits.
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It's probably a pleach as it's a morph of the two tasty stone fruits.
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It's probably a pleach as it's a morph of the two tasty stone fruits.
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It's probably a pleach as it's a morph of the two tasty stone fruits.
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Employing one of three horticultural training methods espalier, pollard or pleach may be the answer to a space problem.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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Without Title teems with words like “atrorubent,” “barathea,” “Pasiphaean,” “haruspex,”” pleach-toned” and “shotten.”
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Without Title teems with words like “atrorubent,” “barathea,” “Pasiphaean,” “haruspex,”” pleach-toned” and “shotten.”
Are You Smart Enough to Understand Geoffrey Hill? « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007
yarb commented on the word pleach
See also citation on pleached.
April 27, 2008
yarb commented on the word pleach
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)
June 22, 2008
yarb commented on the word pleach
Also, citation on tool.
July 4, 2008
stuartmathergibson commented on the word pleach
Pleach
To shade or border with interlaced branches or vines.
February 1, 2022