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verb
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.  (past & past part. plashed; pres. part. plashing)  To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge.


Plash  v. i.  (past & past part. plashed; pres. part. plashing)  To dabble in water; to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles." "Far below him plashed the waters."


noun
Plash  n.  
1.
A small pool of standing water; a puddle. "These shallow plashes."
2.
A dash of water; a splash.


Plash  n.  The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.





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"Plash" Quotes from Famous Books



... man lay snoring in the prow, and only we three sat up to feast on the beauty of the night. The moon rode high above our heads, changing the river into a silver band, and deepening the mysterious shadows of the crowding woods on either bank. Not a sound was heard but the regular plash of our blades; naught moved but our gliding boat, and the silent water which bore us. Ludar, lugging steadily at his oar, spoke not a word. Yet I knew, though I was at his back, where his eyes rested, and what was the big content ...
— Sir Ludar - A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess • Talbot Baines Reed
... the fair and lovely Sultan's daughter in the twilight, - In the twilight by the fountain, Where the sparkling waters plash. ...
— Pike County Ballads and Other Poems • John Hay
... saw a shell held at their ears. He heard more faintly that that they heard, each for herself alone, then each for other, hearing the plash of waves, loudly, a ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... convinced that some in that heap must contain water, and he would persevere. The second and third failed him in like manner, but he would yet persevere. The fourth was heavy, and when he shook it gently he heard the water plash. That thirst at once became burning and uncontrollable. The cry of his body to be assuaged overpowered his will, and while deadly danger menaced he unscrewed the little mouthpiece and drank deep and long. It was not cold and perhaps a little mud lurked ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler
... how is that for the gorgeous East? 'Var'? the name of a river - 'the quiet waters by'! 'Tis true, they are in another department, and consist of stones and a biennial spate; but what a music, what a plash of brooks, for the imagination! We have hills; we have skies; the roses are putting forth, as yet sparsely; the meadows by the sea are one sheet of jonquils; the birds sing as in an English May - for, considering ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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