单词 | plasher |
释义 | plashern. 1. A hedger who plashes hedges. Cf. pleacher n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > hedger hedger?1518 plasher1565 teener1616 pleacher1670 1565–6 in P. A. Kennedy Notts. Househ. Inventories (1963) 90 To the plassher 0–1–2. 1701 T. D'Urfey Bath iii. i. 24 And now let every Rider Go tope stout Ale and Cyder: Each dirty weary plasher From Coals too steal a Rasher. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Plasher, a labourer employed in laying hedges. 1938 Hopewell (New Jersey) Herald 31 Aug. 2/3 In England the man who pleaches trees is called a plasher. 2. A bough or sapling with which a hedge is plashed or intertwined; = pleacher n. 2. Now chiefly English regional (midlands and south-western). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > material for hedging hedging1517 plashera1722 header1837 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 436 That the cattle may not come at the shoots of the plashers, and browse them, and kill them. 1799 W. Nicol Pract. Planter x. §2. 379 The stems cut by the surface send up a strong growth, which, intermixing with the plashers, renders the whole more close and impenetrable. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Plusher, the layer, or horizontal stick crooked down in making a hedge; more commonly called a stretcher. 1904 19th Cent. Sept. 229 [He] chooses with care the likeliest growing wood for ‘plashers’. 1989 Independent (Nexis) 14 Jan. 43 The hedger makes a deep cut into the first big stem, just a few inches from the ground, but being careful not to cut all the way through. The stems are then laid over to form horizontal ‘pleachers’ or ‘plashers’ as they are known in some regions. 2002 Forestry & Brit. Timber (Nexis) 2 May 12 The brothers demonstrated how ‘pleachers’—the partly-cut stems (also called platches, plashers, layers and steepers)—are held in place by a ‘crook’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1565 |
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