单词 | pleaching |
释义 | pleachingn. The intertwining of stems or branches so as to form a hedge, lattice, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] hedgingc1380 pleachinga1398 plashing1495 tining1522 side-haying1610 switching1812 splashing1869 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 246v The wythy..is þikker in bowes and spray by plechyng, schruddyng, and paryng [L. per complexionem..& tonsuram]. 1504 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 314 For pleisshing at the coppy [= coppice]. 1889 Boy's Own Paper 21 Dec. 178/3 The pleaching [of the hedges] ended at the foot of a rise in the ground. 1909 Times 5/1 Would it not be the best plan that they [sc. trees] should be prepared for pleaching two years after they are planted. 1995 Independent on Sunday 2 Apr. (Review Suppl.) 63 (caption) Hack work: pleaching, the old Dorset way of creating a hedge, is strenuous work, but rewarding. 2004 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 16 May 99 Some of the traditional trees right for pleaching that will grow here include limes, such as Tilia platyphyllos, and the hornbeam (Carpinus). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pleachingadj. rare. That forms a pleach, intertwining. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] Gordian1606 interweaving1665 implicating1693 intertwisting1753 interlacing1770 pleaching1805 lacinga1834 intertwining1842 1805 J. Grahame Sabbath (ed. 2) 79 Tangled so thick with pleaching bramble-shoots, With brier and hazel branch, and hawthorn-spray. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398adj.1805 |
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