pleaching

Meanings

nounpleaching (uncountable)

gerunduncountablegerund of pleach: an act of entwining or interweaving.
1 more example
[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.
2005, John D. Lyons, “Self-knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole’s ‘On Self-knowledge’”, in Massimo Ciavolella, Patrick Coleman, editors, Culture and Authority in the Baroque (UCLA Clark Memorial Library series), Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 193
uncountableagricultureA technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control; plashing.
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.
1868, “Osage Hedges”, in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1868, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1869, →OCLC, page 255

verb

Polish plecenie

plecenietechnique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control

Spanish entrelazado, plicho

entrelazadotechnique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control
plichotechnique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control

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