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plessare

plessare, ~iare [AN plesser, OF plaissier] , to make a hedge by pleaching, to pleach (saplings) to form a hedge; b (intr. or absol.). 1224 in sepe pleisiando de cxxij perticis Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/10 r. 6d.; 1244 in spin’ pleissand’ vj s. Ib. 11M59/B1/18 m. 11; 1280 custus domorum. ‥ in una sepe cedenda et ~anda ‥ iiij s. vj d. (Michelmersh) Ac. Man. Wint.; 1297 in liiij perticis vive haye dicti parci ~andis Ac. Cornw 62; 1336 custus domorum .‥ in xij perticis veteris fossati scurandis mundandis et plasschandis, xij d. (Silkstead) Ac. Man. Wint..  b c1235 nec ex aliqua parte de Tanetta plantabit nec ~iabit ad nocumentum alterius Cart. Worc. 93 p. 56.

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