Crossword clues for plaiting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plait \Plait\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plaited; p. pr. & vb. n. Plaiting.]
To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
Wiktionary
n. plaited material vb. (present participle of plait English)
Usage examples of "plaiting".
Wald considered the constant plaiting and adorning of manes and tails a great bother.
Most of the inmates were already in bed, but Mary sat cross-legged on the floor, plaiting a mat of pandanus by the light of a taper of candlenuts.
Red ribbons tumbled about it, plaiting and replaiting in the wind that blew through from the other side.
The processes employed are known by such terms as wattling, interlacing, plaiting, netting, weaving, sewing, and embroidering.
He set the women to building the smoking racks and plaiting baskets of mopani bark, others he ordered to gather wood for the fires.
He picked the butcher gangs from those who were armed with axe and pan ga He set the women to building the smoking racks and plaiting baskets of mopani bark, others he ordered to gather wood for the fires.
He stood plaiting the fine, thin plaits until he had raised a shimmering heap on the floor, and then he stepped back and allowed the moon to move on.
Hailsmen kept their hair shortest of all clans, scorning the intricate plaitings, braidings, oilings, and part shavings that were as much a part of the clanholds as the white heather that bloomed on the fellfields each spring.
Knights donned riding clothes of leather and saw to the grooming of their horses, plaiting tail and mane with ribbons of gold and silver entwined with bells, or dressing their steeds in brightly colored caparisons: red and blue, gold and green, violet and yellow.
Everyone pitched in to finish constructing temporary communal shelters, and Killashandra found herself once again plaiting polly fronds, pleased that her deftness caused no questions.
You're buying a little girl plaiting the forelocks, taking off her hair ribbon to make bows, standing back, head cocked, rubbing the soft noses with her cheek.
He turned his head to show the loss - fifteen years of careful plaiting, combing, encouraging with best Macassar oil, reduced to a bristly stump three inches long.
At his side, in all her beauty, Sat the lovely Minnehaha, Sat his daughter, Laughing Water, Plaiting mats of flags and rushes Of the past the old man's thoughts were, And the maiden's of the future.
He slouched back against the wooden wall behind him and seemed to concentrate all his attention on plaiting and unplaiting the last three-inch tuft of hair at the end of his left braid as he spoke.
She sat there for twenty minutes, her brain occupied with the problems confronting her, and her fingers plaiting and unplaiting the fringe of her shawl.