Sashed vs Swashed - What's the difference?
sashed | swashed |
Fitted with a sash (window opener).
* 1868 , Thomas Richmond, The local records of Stockton and the neighbourhood
Having a sash (cloth decoration).
* 2000 , Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre
(swash)
The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
(typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
(obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
(obsolete) A blustering noise.
(obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
(obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
(architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
To swagger; to bluster and brag.
To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
*1851 ,
To fall violently or noisily.
As an adjective sashed
is fitted with a sash (window opener).As a verb swashed is
past tense of swash.sashed
English
Adjective
(-)- Seeing sashed windows in town, he got them into his own house.
- ...and even middle-class matrons serving in the Sanitary Commission adopted an 'army costume' of loose trousers covered by a sashed kilt and kirtle.
Anagrams
* *swashed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*swash
English
Noun
- (Moxon)
Verb
(es)- How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
- (Holinshed)