See Also: pleach(medicine)
pleach(dictionary)

pleach (iou)



pleach verb & noun. LME.
[Old French (mod. dial. plecher), var. of ple(i)ssier, pla(i)ssier PLASH verb1.]
A. verb trans.
Interlace (bent-down or partly cut stems and branches of young trees and brushwood) to form a fence or hedge. Cf. PLASH verb1 1. LME.
Make or renew (a hedge or fence) by the above process. Cf. PLASH verb1 2. E16.
transf. Entwine, interlace, tangle, plait. M19.
A. C. Swinburne Poppied hair of gold Persephone..pleached..about her brows.
b. noun. Interlacing or intertwining of boughs; a flexible branch or stem; an intertwined arrangement of these, forming a hedge. E19.
pleached adjective (a) (esp. of a walk or arbour) formed by pleaching of boughs and twigs, fenced or overarched with pleached boughs; (b) interlaced, intertwined, tangled: L16.