braided

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of braid

   That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

comparative more braided · superlative most braided

1. not comparableusuallyPlaited, woven, entwined.
2. not comparableusuallyDivided into several channels.

   Further upstream, at the gravel mining site near the mouth of Sweetwater Creek, the Arroyo Seco channel is very braided and shallow with some exposed bedrock ledges.

   2001 June 8, Draft Envrionmental Impact Report/Envrionmental Impact Statement for the Salinas Valley Water Project, Monterey County Water Resources Agency; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, SCH# 20000034007, page 2