English Dictionary

pleaching

/ˈpliːtʃɪŋ/

noun

gerund of pleach: an act of entwining or interweaving. / (horticulture) A technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control; plashing.

The pleaching of the trees created a beautiful natural archway.

意味（1）

gerund of pleach: an act of entwining or interweaving.

[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.

意味（2）

(horticulture) A 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.