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Braid
Answer for the clue "Braid ", 6 letters:
pleach
Word definitions for pleach in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. form or weave into a braid or braids; "braid hair" [syn: braid ] [ant: unbraid ] interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge" [syn: plash ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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; ...
Usage examples of pleach.
Be drest in pure virgyn garments fromme head to heel, and girt with a red girdel of pleached corde, and shodde in blue.
That morning as I had driven the country road in my old Mustang convertible with the top down, under the pleached arbor of seared red sumac and blared yellow birch, acorns falling amidst the squashed squirrels, I felt angry that I couldn't be out playing in this day so full of chilled hope and possibility but had to be locked up with 350 lunatics.