Meaning of PLASH
| Pronunciation: | | plash
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- [n] the sound like water splashing
- [v] dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
- [v] interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge"
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| | Synonyms: | | pleach, spatter, splash, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| | See Also: | | disperse, dot, dust, enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, noise, puddle, scatter, slosh, slosh around, slush, slush around, splat, sprinkle, twine | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Plash\, n. [OD. plasch. See {Plash}, v.]
1. A small pool of standing water; a puddle. --Bacon. ``These
shallow plashes.'' --Barrow.
2. A dash of water; a splash.
\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\, v. t.
1. To splash, as water.
2. To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a
wall in imitation of granite.
\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.
\Plash\, n.
The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or
intertwined with, other branches.
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