premise: to <mask> branches
hypothesis: the best context for <mask> here is A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.; but not To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat.