plash2 (plash)

[OF. pla ier, plai ier, ples sier, plash (cf. * ple e (?) (ML. ple a ), a thicket of woven boughs), a secondary form, For Nature, loath, so rare a jewels wracke, Seem'd as she here and there had plash'd a tree, If po ible to hinder destiny. W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 4. There is a cupola made with pole-work between two elmes at the end of a walk, which, being cover'd by plash . ing the trees to them, is very pretty. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 30, 1683. II. in trans . To bend down a branch. Some of the trees hung over the wall, and my brother did plash and did eat. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progre , ii.