plashedadj.
/plaʃt/, U.S. /plæʃt/ That is or has been pleached.
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1602 Burford Reg. in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1901) I. 164 Makinge of plaished hedge and other fensed hedge.
1615 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden (1623) 20 The plasht bough lying on the ground.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xii. 242 Plashed bowres at sundrie tables plac't.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (1757) II. 266 Take care also to set the stakes outwardly, and off the shoots, whereas the hedgers for riddance, and for sake of making stakes of the live standards, work the plashed hedge strait on, most likely through the middle-most part of the hedge.
1805 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα (ed. 2) II. iv. 256 A raddle hedge, is a hedge of pleached or plashed or twisted or wreathed twigs or boughs.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 571 The plashed stem is cut over, of the length required for the particular gap.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxv A well drained wheat stubble, with a newly plashed fence.
1894 Times 7 Dec. 13/4 Woodcraft..comprised timber-felling and planting,..making plashed banks.
1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 1352/4 Chiaroscuro and perspective effects were deployed to exaggerate or diminish the actual distances of plashed avenues and woodland walks.
1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside ix. 184 It appears that there had been fields divided by plashed hawthorn hedges and ditches.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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