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UK
/plˈiːtʃ/
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VERB
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interlace the shoots of
pleach a hedge -
form or weave into a braid or braids
braid hair
How To Use pleach In A Sentence
- As they had driven through the winding avenue of dogwood and into the cobbled courtyard surrounded by pleached limes, she had grown uneasy. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
- You also might want to experiment with some specialized design techniques, such as using pruning to create a pleached tunnel of ironwood trees or a living fence of espalier currants.
- Arrived at Master _Agnew's_ Doore, found it open, no one in Parlour or Studdy; soe _Dick_ tooke the Horses rounde, and then we went straite thro 'the House, into the Garden behind, which is on a rising Ground, with pleached Alleys and turfen Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary
- In Ireland, don't even think about growing it unless you live in one of those hot pockets warmed by the Gulf Stream, where it should do well pleached on a warm sunny wall.
- If space is really a problem, consider pleaching a pear tree against a south facing wall.
- The farmer is now pleaching the hawthorn and wild plum.
- You also might want to experiment with some specialized design techniques, such as using pruning to create a pleached tunnel of ironwood trees or a living fence of espalier currants.
- Blanched men, starved women, whom no arts can pleach. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
- pleach a hedge
- Cut back the orange and yellow stems of pollard willows and pleached limes. Times, Sunday Times