The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plash \Plash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plashed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plashing.] [Cf. D. plassen, G. platschen. Cf. Splash.]
To dabble in water; to splash. ``Plashing among bedded
pebbles.''
--Keats.
Far below him plashed the waters.
--Longfellow.
Plash \Plash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plashed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plashing.] [OF. plaissier, plessier, to bend. Cf.
Pleach.]
To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as,
to plash a hedge.
--Evelyn.
Plashing \Plash"ing\, n.
The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sound that plashes, as of water. 2 The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges. 3 The dashing or sprinkling of colouring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc. vb. (present participle of plash English)
Usage examples of "plashing".
Renardet, as he appeared, thought he heard a light sound, a faint plashing which was not that of the stream on the banks.
At times it was an indistinct plashing, like the cautious advance of a boat, then again a sharp noise like the rattle of an oar and then the sound of something dropping in the water.
And to the sound of the plashing waves the old, old story was told again.
With its pure sky, and its odour of warm pines, its deep cool shadows, its patines of bright gold where the sun penetrates, and then, plashing through it, this curling, dimpling, artificial torrent?
But all colour was lost in the soft and odorous darkness of the late September night, and all sounds were hushed in the deep charm of its silence, save the plashing of the water, like a voice half-sobbing and half-laughing under the shadows.
While the blood was still plashing from step to step, the leader of the rangers seized a torch, and applied it to the drapery of the shrine.
Yet but one flimsy riband of Its web Have we here watched in weaving--web Enorm, Whose furthest hem and selvage may extend To where the roars and plashings of the flames Of earth-invisible suns swell noisily, And onwards into ghastly gulfs of sky, Where hideous presences churn through the dark-- Monsters of magnitude without a shape, Hanging amid deep wells of nothingness.
They serpented towards his feet, curling, unfurling many crests, every ninth, breaking, plashing, from far, from farther out, waves and waves.
And it was among these notable and austere personagesshort of their customary total by one, for the doyen Chelp had died a few days earlierthat the inventor Yockerbow was summoned to stand today, beneath the interlaced branches of the Doqal Hall, with water plashing underpad.
Sometimes he dreamed of it, of sunlit trees and plashing streams all filled with fish, high hills and grassy plains—which was most odd, for he'd no knowledge of that place, nor any love of things bucolic.
Fine electric activity in sound came from the dumbles below the road, the birds piping one against the other, and water mysteriously plashing, issuing from the lake.