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.
To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.
A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
A winning streak.
The membrane of a fish ovary.
A web, a weave, a tangle.
A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
To wind or weave into a skein.