different between plash vs pleach

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæs? (“pool, puddle”). Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).

Noun

plash (plural plashes)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.

   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Coulers of Good and Evill, 4:

     Hereof Aesop framed the Fable of the two Frogs that consulted together in time of drowth (when many plashes that they had repayred to were dry) what was to be done.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:

     Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)

     These shallow plashes.

2. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
   • 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers

     Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash, and as we listened we watched it in silence.

3. A sudden downpour.

Verb

plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)

1. (intransitive) To splash.

   • plashing among bedded pebbles

   • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

     Far below him plashed the waters.

   • […] heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her […]

2. (transitive) To cause a splash.
3. (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.

   to plash a wall in imitation of granite

Related terms

• plashy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”). For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”). Compare also pleach.

Noun

plash (plural plashes)

1. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

Verb

plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)

1. (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
2. (transitive) To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).
   • {{1679, John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part: Some of the trees hung over the wall, and my brother did plash and eat.

Anagrams

• Pahls, halps, phals

English

Etymology

The verb is from Late Middle English pleshe, Middle English plechen, pleche (“to layer; to propagate (a plant) by layering, to pleach”), possibly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French plesser, plessier, Middle French plescer, variants of Middle French, Old French plaissier, plessier (“to plash”), from Late Latin *plaxus, from Latin plexus (“braided, plaited, woven; bent, twisted”), perfect passive participle of plect? (“to braid, plait, weave; to bend, turn, twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ple?- (“to fold, plait, weave”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pl?ch, IPA^(key): /pli?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /plit?/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Verb

pleach (third-person singular simple present pleaches, present participle pleaching, simple past and past participle pleached)

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

   Synonyms: entwine, interlace, plait

Derived terms

• impleach
• pleached (adjective)
• pleacher
• pleaching (noun)

Translations

Noun

pleach (plural pleaches)

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

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

Translations

References

Further reading

• pleaching on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Chapel, Lepcha, cephal-, chapel