• (RP) enPR: plēch, IPA: /pliːtʃ/
• (GA) IPA: /plitʃ/

pleach (pleaches, present participle pleaching; past and past participle pleached)

1. (transitive) To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branch#Noun|branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge#Noun|hedge; to interlock#Verb|interlock, to plash#Verb 2|plash.

   Synonyms: entwine, interlace, plait

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii], page 92 ↗, column 2:

     Her Vine, the merry chearer of the heart, / Vnpruned, dyes: her Hedges euen pleach'd, / Like Priſoners wildly ouer-growne with hayre, / Put forth diſorder'd Twigs: [...]

     Her [France's] vine [i.e. grapevines which produce wine], the merry cheerer of the heart / Unpruned, dies; her hedges, though [once] evenly pleached, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disordered twigs; [...]

   • 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: Printed [by T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 1467112 ↗, lines 932–935, page 149 ↗:

     Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]

• French: plesser
• Russian: переплета́ть

pleach (plural pleaches)

1. An act#Noun|act or result#Noun|result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge#Noun|hedge or lattice#Noun|lattice created by interweaving the branch#Noun|branches of shrubs, trees, etc.

   Synonyms: plash

2. (horticulture) A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
3. (horticulture) A notch#Noun|notch cut#Verb|cut into a branch so that it can be bend#Verb|bent when pleaching#Noun|pleaching is carried out.

• French: plessage

• French: plessis