interlace
verb (used without object)
to cross one another, typically passing alternately over and under, as if woven together; intertwine.
interlacement
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a word derived from
interlace.
Example Sentences
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He was trying to alter them so that they would shut more firmly, and, as the interlacement of such braces was complicated, be had got himself in a muddle.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
To cast on.—The first interlacement of the cotton on the needle.
From My Knitting Book by Lambert, Miss
Another source of anxiety was saved to him; viz., constant heedfulness as to the working of the interlacement of his lines—i. e., their running, as it were, under and over one another.
From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, Matthew Digby
Round this Wallenstein threw up a circle of defences, consisting of a ditch behind which was an interlacement of forest trees, baggage wagons, and gabions, forming an almost insurpassable obstacle to an attacking force.
From The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
In internal structure grass-culms, save in being hollow, conform to that usual in monocotyledons; the vascular bundles run parallel in the internodes, but a horizontal interlacement occurs at the nodes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
