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Plash - What does it mean?

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plash

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(plashes)
  • (UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh .
    (Francis Bacon)
  • * Isaac Barrow
    • These shallow plashes .
  • A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
  • * Henry James, The Aspern Papers
    • Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash , and as we listened we watched it in silence.

    Verb

  • To splash.
  • * Keats
    • plashing among bedded pebbles
  • * Longfellow
    • Far below him plashed the waters.
  • *
  • To cause a splash.
  • To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
    • to plash a wall in imitation of granite
    Related terms
    * plashy

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) plaissier, . Compare pleach.

    Noun

    (plashes)
  • The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

    • Verb

  • To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
  • * to plash a hedge
    • (Evelyn)

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    Not English

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