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Pleach

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.

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pleach

vb. (context transitive English) To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.

WordNet
pleach
  1. v. form or weave into a braid or braids; "braid hair" [syn: braid] [ant: unbraid]

  2. interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge" [syn: plash]

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.