pleach

Meanings

Verb

• To unite by interweaving, as branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.

Noun

• An act or result of interweaving; specifically, a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc.
• A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
• A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out.

Origin

• The verb is from Late Middle English pleshe, Middle English plechen, pleche, possibly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French plesser, plessier, Middle French plescer, variants of Middle French, Old French plaissier, plessier, from Late Latin *plaxus, from Latin plexus, perfect passive participle of plectō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-.
• The noun is derived from the verb.