ˈplasher local.
[f. plash v.1 + -er1.]
a. A bough or sapling with which a hedge is plashed or intertwisted. b. A hedger who plashes hedges.
| a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1757) 436 That the cattle may not come at the shoots of the plashers, and browse them, and kill them. 1886 S.W. Linc. Gloss., Plasher, a labourer employed in laying hedges. 1886 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Plusher, the layer, or horizontal stick crooked down in making a hedge. 1904 19th Cent. Sept. 229 [He] chooses with care the likeliest growing wood for ‘plashers’. |