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pleach


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pleach  \Pleach\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pleached};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Pleaching}.]  [Cf.  OF  plaissier  to  bend,  and  also  F.  plisser 
  to  plait,  L.  plicare  plicitum,  to  fold,  lay,  or  wind 
  together.  Cf  {Plash}  to  pleach.] 
  To  unite  by  interweaving,  as  branches  of  trees;  to  plash;  to 
  interlock.  ``The  pleached  bower.''  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pleach 
  v  1:  form  or  weave  into  a  braid  or  braids;  "braid  hair"  [syn:  {braid}] 
  [ant:  {unbraid}] 
  2:  interlace  the  shoots  of  "pleach  a  hedge"  [syn:  {plash}] 




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