pleach

1. 1.

   form or weave into a braid or braids

   “braid hair”

   Synonymsbraid

   Broaderweave
2. 2.

   interlace the shoots of

   “pleach a hedge”

   Synonymsplash

   Broaderintertwine

Other forms of pleach

past tense

pleached·

present participle

pleaching·

third person

pleaches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pleach

What does pleach mean?

pleach means "form or weave into a braid or braids". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pleach?

pleach has 2 syllables: ple-ach. The stress falls on "ach".

What is another word for pleach?

Close synonyms include braid, plash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pleach a common word?

pleach is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.