Sentence:  The <WSD>pleaches</WSD> are laid over all in the same direction and stakes are driven in so as to come alternately behind and in front of the stems laid over, but the ends of the <WSD>pleaches</WSD> are made to finish all on one side, that is to say, on the opposite side of the hedge to the notches. [...] The hedger treads down his <WSD>pleaches</WSD> so as to make a firm and solid hedge and winds round the tops of the stakes long, clean rods of hazel, [...] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.