plash Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the sound like water splashing
    splash.
  2. verb interlace the shoots of
    pleach.
    • pleach a hedge
  3. verb dash a liquid upon or against
    splatter; splash; spatter; splosh; swash.
    • The mother splashed the baby's face with water

WordNet


Plash noun
Etymology
OD. plasch. See Plash, v.
Definitions
  1. A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. "These shallow plashes." Barrow.
  2. A dash of water; a splash.
Plash intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. D. plassen, G. platschen. Cf. Splash.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Plashed ; present participle & verbal noun Plashing
Definitions
  1. To dabble in water; to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles." Keats.
    Far below him plashed the waters. Longfellow.
Plash transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To splash, as water.
  2. To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.
Plash transitive verb
Etymology
OF. plaissier, plessier, to bend. Cf. Pleach.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Plashed ; present participle & verbal noun Plashing
Definitions
  1. To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge. Evelyn.
Plash noun
Definitions
  1. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

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