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Meaning of "pleached" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLEACHED

pleached  [ˈpliːtʃd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLEACHED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pleached is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PLEACHED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pleached

Pleaching

Pleaching or plashing is a technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control. Trees are planted in lines, the branches are woven together to strengthen and fill any weak spots until the hedge thickens. Branches in close contact may grow together, due to a natural phenomenon called inosculation, a natural graft. Pleach also means weaving of thin, whippy stems of trees to form a basketry effect.

Definition of pleached in the English dictionary

The definition of pleached in the dictionary is having interlaced stems or boughs.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLEACHED

plea
plea agreement
plea bargaining
plea-bargain
pleach
plead
plead guilty
pleadable
pleader
pleading
pleadingly
pleadings
pleasable
pleasance
pleasant
Pleasant Island
pleasantly
pleasantness
pleasantries
pleasantry

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLEACHED

attached
bleached
detached
drenched
moustached
mustached
nonattached
poached
researched
roached
semidetached
stretched
touched
unapproached
unattached
unbleached
unbreached
unimpeached
unreached
unreproached

Synonyms and antonyms of pleached in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pleached» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLEACHED

Find out the translation of pleached to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pleached from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pleached» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pleached
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pleached
570 millions of speakers

English

pleached
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pleached
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pleached
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pleached
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pleached
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pleached
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pleached
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merayu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pleached
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pleached
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pleached
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pleached
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pleached
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pleached
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Pleached
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pleached
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intrecciata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pleached
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pleached
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pleached
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

pleached
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pad omzoomd met gevlochten
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

pleached
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

pleached
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pleached

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLEACHED»

The term «pleached» is normally little used and occupies the 143.792 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLEACHED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pleached

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLEACHED»

Discover the use of pleached in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pleached and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Topiary And The Art Of Training Plants
Avenues of pleached lime on clear items are most commonly seen as features in large gardens, but it is possible to train a short screen that will fit into a smaller garden. Farmus support systems are used to ensure vertical growth of the main ...
David Joyce, 1999
2
The Pruning Book
Although a row or a bower of pleached trees is eventually self-supporting, some sort of framework is needed to direct growth into the desired form. This support might be built of metal or wooden posts and crosspieces, or posts with horizontal  ...
Lee Reich, 2010
3
Spon's External Works and Landscape Price
Item Excluding site overheads and profit £ TREE PLANTING – cont Pleached trees; Carpinus betulus; specimen trees; Lorenz Von Ehren; supply and planting only; excavation, support and treepit additives not included Box shaped trees to ...
Davis Langdon, 2012
4
The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, Unpruned dies s : her hedges even- pleached, Like prisoners wildly over-grown with hair 9, s Unpruned dies :] We must read, lies; for neglect of pruning does not kill the vine, but causes it to ramify  ...
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, 1821
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Plays and poems: With a new glossarial index
Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, Unpruned dies 8 : her hedges even- pleached, Like prisoners wildly over-grown with hair 9, 8 Unpruned mas :] We must read, lies,- for neglect of pruning does not kill the vine, but causes it to ramify ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821
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Pruning: An Illustrated Guide: Foolproof Methods for Shaping ...
Although a row or a bower of pleached trees is eventually self-supporting, some sort of framework is needed to direct growth into the desired form. This support might be built of metal or wooden posts and crosspieces, or posts with horizontal  ...
Lee Reich, 1999
7
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Richard II. ...
The Duke of Burgundy therefore, among other instances of the neglect of huibandry, mentions this ; that the hedDes, which -were even-pleached, for want of trimming put forth irregular twigs; like prisoners, who in their confinement have  ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, 1790
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the ...
Hedg-s are pleached, that i», their long branches being cut off, are twisted and woven through the lower part of the hedge, in order to thicken and strengthen the ft' nee. The following year, when the hedge shoots out, it is customary in many ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, 1797
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The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of ...
Alas! she hath from France too long been chas'd, And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps, Corrupting in its own fertility. Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart, Unpruned dies : her hedges even-pleached, Like prisoners wildly over-grown ...
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, 1842
10
Venice Desired
The pleached arbour of stone, Thither Borso, when they shot the barbed arrow at him, And Carmagnola, between the two columns, Sigismundo, after that wreck in Dalmatia. Sunset like the grasshopper flying. (XVII, 79) We are back in historical ...
Tony Tanner, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLEACHED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pleached is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hall's Antiques Roadshow to raise charity cash
... beside the Grade II listed hall, with modern rose and formal beds, deep herbaceous borders, a pond, pleached limes and hedge patterns. «Border Counties Advertizer, Jul 15»
2
The Putney Passivhaus project: how we built our hi-tech, eco …
With its lollipop olive trees, Tibetan cherries and pleached limes set behind English lavender and box, the garden has an effortless mix of ... «Homes and Property, Jul 15»
3
How do I become … a hedgelayer
When a pleached hedge begins to take form, Leeke says, “you're giving a whole new range of birds a nesting site, as well as creating a ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
The Laskett Gardens bequeathed to charity by historian Sir Roy Strong
They include a rose garden, pleached lime avenue, orchard, herbaceous and prarie borders, topiary and more. "It is no secret that the creation ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Garden opens for charity
It includes a garden opening on Sunday 5 July (2-5.30): Free Green Farm, Free Green Lane, Lower Peover The 2-acre garden has pleached ... «Knutsford Guardian, Jun 15»
6
Hole new perspective
In a French country garden in the Loire Valley, the gardener pleached (interlaced the branches) an entire row of linden trees to create a ... «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jun 15»
7
James Turrell's light-show at Houghton Hall
They were concerned with light in paint and James's work continues that tradition,” he murmurs, as we set off past the pleached limes to look at ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
8
The emigration of love (Part II)
In the early morning, light spills dappled leaf-shadows through pleached layers of branches and trunks. A small creek flows thruin the forest ... «Boulder Weekly, Jun 15»
9
The Shoes of Le Nôtre
... like the hornbeams, were pleached. And there were yews for topiaries and boxwood for the parterres and then what we are stupidly calling in ... «The New Yorker, May 15»
10
Experts hail Chelsea as a celebration of horticulture
Unusual combinations seen in international-themed gardens, such as the pleached oak and proteas in Australian Charlie Albone's garden ... «Horticulture Week, May 15»

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