plash

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A small pool of standing water

   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.
2. 2

   A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water…

   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.
   • The short dark waves, heaved to the land, / With ceaseless plash kiss'd cliff or sand;— […]
3. 3

   A heavy fall of rain

   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.
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   1. 4

      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; […]
   2. 5

      To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound

      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.
   3. 6

      To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.

      • Then, loa ye, from Tenedos through ſtanding deepe floud apeaſed^([sic – meaning appeared?]) / (I ſhiuer in telling) two ſerpents monſterus ouglie / Plaſht the water ſulcking to the ſhoare moſt haſtily ſwinging.
      • [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, […]
      • "[…] We must go and plash up the mud a little, mustn't we, Juno?" This was addressed to the brown setter, who had jumped up at the sound of the voices and laid her nose in an insinuating way on her master's leg.
   4. 7

      To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound

      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, […]
      • At last, by hap, through some young trees it [a lance] struck, / And, plashing among bedded pebbles, stuck / In the middle of a brook,— […]
      • [O]n and onward still thou [a deer] dashedst, / And in the lake's blue calmness plashedst, / As if by hound pursu'd.
   5. 8

      Of water or some other liquid

      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.
      • [H]eedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained calling, at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.
   6. 9

      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.
      • For blood of Martyrs vvell is ſaid to be the Churches Seede, / VVhere Maſſacres haue plaſhed there is ſpread a triple Breede.
   7. 10

      Used to represent the sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other…

      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.
   8. 11

      Synonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending…

      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: […]
      • It is almoſt incredible to vvhat perfection ſome had laid theſe Hedges, by the rural vvay of plaſhing, better than by clipping; […]
      • [T]here was not, at this season, a green pasture—nothing but fallow and turnips everywhere; in large fields divided by hedges plashed to unrelieved levels.
   9. 12

      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.
      • There were few trees, or none, those that would have grown in the hedges being mercilessly plashed down with the quickset by the tenant-farmers, the natural enemies of tree, bush, and brake
   10. 13

       To intertwine (branches or stems of plants) on a trellis

       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.

   11. 14

       To intertwine branches or stems of plants of (a wood) to block a passage for defensive…

       To intertwine branches or stems of plants of (a wood) to block a passage for defensive purposes.

   12. 15

       A plant stem which has been partly cut, bent down, and intertwined with other stems to…

       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.

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