meshed

1. 1
   fit togetherverb

   Past tense and past participle of mesh.

   The new coach's style meshed perfectly with the team's young players.

   Once the teeth had meshed, the drive shaft began to turn.

   Note

   One form does both past jobs: the coach's style meshed with the young players, and once the teeth had meshed, the shaft turned. In the fitting-together meaning it often takes with, while gears and other interlocking parts can simply have meshed. A more literal use comes from nets: fish meshed in a net have been caught in it.

2. 2
   net-likeadjective

   Having a mesh, a structure of connected strands with evenly spaced openings between them.

   The running shirt has meshed panels under the arms to let air through.

   A meshed gate kept the chickens in but let the breeze pass.

3. 3
   mashedadjectiveobsolete

   Crushed into a mash, or brewed.

   Brew'd with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks:

   c. 1588, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”

   Note

   This brewing sense is long obsolete, but it survives in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, where Lavinia's tears are her drink, "brew'd with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks." The pairing comes from the brewhouse, where malt is mashed as part of brewing: sorrow is what the tears are brewed with, and her cheeks are where they are mashed. It has nothing to do with nets or the verb for interlocking.

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