Pleaching
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpliːtʃɪŋ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pleaching is a noun meaning gerund of pleach: an act of entwining or interweaving.
Meaning
gerund of pleach: an act of entwining or interweaving.
More Meanings
- (horticulture) A technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control; plashing.
- present participle and gerund of pleach
Example Sentences
Osage thorn hedge should not be pleached during severe freezing weather, but pleaching may be done in mild weather, when there is but little frost in the wood, and in the winter in southern latitudes.
[I]t now seems that in the heart of the seventeenth century many writers advanced a vision of inquiry in which truth and falsehood, far from being always and everywhere incompatible, must sometimes be combined in the search for knowledge. To understand this pleaching of truth and untruth, we need to consider how facets of the baroque interact.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plash, braid, plashing, pleacher, plouter, plowter.
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