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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpliːtʃɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplit͡ʃɪŋ/
• 韻: -iːtʃɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: pleach‧ing

名詞

pleaching (uncountable)

1. gerund of pleach: an act of entwining or interweaving.
   • 2005, John D. Lyons, “Self-knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole’s ‘On Self-knowledge’”, in Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman, editors, Culture and Authority in the Baroque (UCLA Clark Memorial Library series), Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     [I]t now seems that in the heart of the seventeenth century many writers advanced a vision of inquiry in which truth and falsehood, far from being always and everywhere incompatible, must sometimes be combined in the search for knowledge. To understand this pleaching of truth and untruth, we need to consider how facets of the baroque interact.

2. (horticulture) A technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control; plashing.
   • 1868, “Osage Hedges”, in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1868, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1869, OCLC 5814386, page 255:

     Osage thorn hedge should not be pleached during severe freezing weather, but pleaching may be done in mild weather, when there is but little frost in the wood, and in the winter in southern latitudes.

動詞

pleaching

1. present participle of pleach

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