pleach
Plural: pleaches
Verb
Verb Forms: pleached, pleaching, pleaches
- To interweave branches or hedges to form a living fence or arch.
- form or weave into a braid or braids
- interlace the shoots of
- "pleach a hedge"
- To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.
Noun
- An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc.
- A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
- A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out.
Examples
- He tried to pleach his letters into a complex word, but they just didn’t connect.
Origin / Etymology
The verb is from Late Middle English pleshe, Middle English plechen, pleche (“to layer; to propagate (a plant) by layering, to pleach”), possibly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French plesser, plessier, Middle French plescer, variants of Middle French, Old French plaissier, plessier (“to plash”), from Late Latin *plaxus, from Latin plexus (“braided, plaited, woven; bent, twisted”), perfect passive participle of plectō (“to braid, plait, weave; to bend, turn, twist”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
pleach: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpleach: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pleach: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary