Lexicographical Neighbors of Plasher
Literary usage of Plasher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compendium of Modern Husbandry: Principally Written During a Survey of by James Malcolm (1805)
"... and making a stool from almost every joint, supposing the plasher to be 12 or
16 feet long; an underwood so treated may be made to fill up every vacancy ..."
2. The Book of Crafts and Character by Walter Raymond (1907)
"Wherever the hedge is thick and good he merely cuts it down close to the bank;
but where it is thin, and across every " shard," he must lay a " plasher. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"Tommy Lee was th' best plasher I ¡ver heard tell on. 1742. " Buried . . .
May 26th, William Johnson, labourer & "— Scotter Par. Reg. PLAT.— A grass-plot. ..."
4. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"Slasher, sb. a plasher or pleach of a ' laid ' hedge. Slide, sb. a sledge.
Slit, sb. a crack or cleft in the breast of fat cattle. Sludge, sb. mire. ..."
5. A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases by Barzillai Lowsley, Job Lowsley (1888)
"... or plasher ; a stem in a hedge half cut through and bent down. " The pleached
bower," Much Ado, iii. 1. ..."
6. A Compendium of Modern Husbandry: Principally Written During a Survey of by James Malcolm (1805)
"... and making a stool from almost every joint, supposing the plasher to be 12 or
16 feet long; an underwood so treated may be made to fill up every vacancy ..."
7. The Book of Crafts and Character by Walter Raymond (1907)
"Wherever the hedge is thick and good he merely cuts it down close to the bank;
but where it is thin, and across every " shard," he must lay a " plasher. ..."
8. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"Tommy Lee was th' best plasher I ¡ver heard tell on. 1742. " Buried . . .
May 26th, William Johnson, labourer & "— Scotter Par. Reg. PLAT.— A grass-plot. ..."
9. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"Slasher, sb. a plasher or pleach of a ' laid ' hedge. Slide, sb. a sledge.
Slit, sb. a crack or cleft in the breast of fat cattle. Sludge, sb. mire. ..."
10. A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases by Barzillai Lowsley, Job Lowsley (1888)
"... or plasher ; a stem in a hedge half cut through and bent down. " The pleached
bower," Much Ado, iii. 1. ..."
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