Pleach

Quick meaning: Pleach is a verb meaning (transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.

Meaning

(transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.

More Meanings

1. (horticulture) A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
2. (horticulture) A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out.
3. An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc.

Example Sentences

[I]n Messina, he pleaches Leonato's bower with honeysuckle; [...]

Not a dryad of the beeches, / Through the filmy forest-reaches, / That a tress of summer pleaches, / But had owned her queen; [...]

Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]

Her Vine, the merry chearer of the heart, / Vnpruned, dyes: her Hedges euen pleach'd, / Like Priſoners wildly ouer-growne with hayre, / Put forth diſorder'd Twigs: [...]

Word Forms

• pleaches
• pleaching
• pleached

Synonyms for pleach

Depending on context, synonyms include entwine, interlace, plait, plash, braid.

Antonyms for pleach

Common opposites include unbraid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plash, braid, interplait, plait, empleach, impleach.

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