Plaited meaning

It is not possible to enumerate here even the principal styles of ishime, but mention may be made of the zara-maki (broad-cast), in which the surface is finely but irregularly pitted after the manner of the face of a stone; the nashi-ji (pear-ground), in which we have a surface like the rind of a pear; the hari-ishime (needle ishime), where the indentations are so minute that they seem to have been made with the point of a needle; the gama-ishime, which is intended to imitate the skin of a toad; the tsuya-ishime, produced with a chisel sharpened so that its traces have a lustrous appearance; the ore-liuchi (broken-tool), a peculiar kind obtained with a jagged tool; and the gozam, which resembles the plaited surface of a fine straw mat.

Her jet black hair was swept up gracefully into a plaited crown.

It was probably made of plaited leather or felt.

Some built little houses of the tufts in the plowed ground, or plaited baskets from the straw in the cornfield.

The walls of the renal sacs are deeply plaited and thrown into ridges.