释义 |
ˈplasher local. [f. plash v.1 + -er1.] a. A bough or sapling with which a hedge is plashed or intertwisted. b. A hedger who plashes hedges.
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 436 That the cattle may not come at the shoots of the plashers, and browse them, and kill them. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss., Plasher, a labourer employed in laying hedges. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Plusher, the layer, or horizontal stick crooked down in making a hedge. 190419th Cent. Sept. 229 [He] chooses with care the likeliest growing wood for ‘plashers’. |