braided

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪdɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪdɪd

Verb

braided

1. simple past and past participle of braid
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

Adjective

braided (not generally comparable, comparative more braided, superlative most braided)

1. Plaited, woven, entwined
2. (of a stream) Divided into several channels
   • 2001 June 8, Draft Envrionmental Impact Report/Envrionmental Impact Statement for the Salinas Valley Water Project‎^[1], Monterey County Water Resources Agency; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, SCH# 20000034007, page 2:

     Further upstream, at the gravel mining site near the mouth of Sweetwater Creek, the Arroyo Seco channel is very braided and shallow with some exposed bedrock ledges.

Derived terms

• braided belt
• braidedness
• braided river
• cobraided
• unbraided