Sekirov Dictionary

plash

/plæʃ/

verb 12
noun 5
exclamation 1
forms 6

verb12

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To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
- Thro thick and thin they scour'd about, / Plashin thro Dubs and Sykes, […] — 1718
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Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
- [T]he salt vvater plashes and froaths to see it self so suddenly resisted: but the moist breath usually vaporing in or upon the Seas makes it sometimes turbulent. — 1677
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To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
- When the halcyon is sporting far out on the seas, / In the beach's bright ripple thou plashest thy wings, / And tossest the spray from the shore-eddied rings. — 1850
To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.
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To bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.
- Some againe plant Cornell Trees, and plash them, or keepe them lovve, to forme them into an hedge. — 1629
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(dialect, UK) Synonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending them down, and intertwining them with other stems”).
- [I]n the months of Ianuarie and Februarie he shall first plash and cut his Hedges and Quick-sets, that thereby they may grovv thicke and strong at the bottomes: […] — 1616
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(no longer used) To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
- [U]nless they lay themselves dovvn to be trampl'd under foot, plash'd like Mortar, or abjure their Religion, the same Calamities, the same Slaughters, hang over their Heads, […] — 1658
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(no longer used) To hit someone or something with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.
- In clammie waies he treaddeth by and by, / And plasheth and sprayeth all that be him nye. — 1592
(no longer used) To intertwine (branches or stems of plants) on a trellis; to trellis; also, to train (a tree or other plant) to grow against a wall; to espalier.
(no longer used) To intertwine (branches, flowers, etc.) together; to interweave.
(no longer used) To intertwine branches or stems of plants of (a wood) to block a passage for defensive purposes.
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(no longer used) To bend down (a bush, tree, or other plant).
- You knovv that there vvas an Orchard on the left hand, and some of the Trees hung over the VVall, and my Brother did plash and did eat. — 1684

noun5

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A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
- The mildew drops fell one by one, / With tinkling plash, upon the stone. — 1808
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(Northern-England) A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
- Out of the vvound the redblood flovved fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh. — 1590
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(dialect, UK) A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
- Penthouses five stories high, not so much for the protection of the people in the street as to keep the plash of heavy rain from the house windows, so that these might be the more safely open. — 1887
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(figurative, no longer used) A splash of light on a surface.
- The waterfall, scattering its vanishing gems; the tall grove of hemlocks, with moss on their stems, like plashes of sunlight; […] — 1848
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(dialect, no longer used) A plant stem which has been partly cut, bent down, and intertwined with other stems to make or repair a hedge; also, a bush, hedge, etc., which has been pleached in this manner; a pleach.
- [T]he fresh fragrant flovvers of Divine Poesie and Morall Philosophy could not like vvell to be removed, nor transported to those thorny places and plashes of the Lavv. — 1638

exclamation1

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(no longer used) Used to represent the sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something.
- In the ooze generally the water comes half-way up the shoe, and we go plash, plash, plash, in the lawn-like glade. — 1867

forms

plashed · plashedst · plashing · plashes · plasheth · plashest

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