hank vs pleach

hank

noun
  • A rope or withe for fastening a gate. 

  • A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down. 

  • A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope. 

  • Doubt, difficulty. 

  • Mess, tangle. 

  • A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward. 

verb
  • To form into hanks. 

  • To fasten with a rope, as a gate. 

pleach

noun
  • A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out. 

  • An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc. 

  • A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher. 

verb
  • To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash. 

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