plash

• In the silence came the answering groan, plash, chuck of oars on the far side of the next bend. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
• Her father and sister shrieked to Him--who they believed heard them and sent his Messenger; for a plash in the water, a strong man with wonderful--it seemed superhuman--strength and speed, was making his way toward Mary. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• Listen They listened motionless for some time; but nothing was heard but the everlasting plash, which went on all around them Unbar the door, Bellines He did so, and held the door wide for the Commandant to enter. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
• "I'm chief orsifer here, so just you wait until you are told Tom Tully growled, and the gunner walked down to where the waves beat upon the shingle just as the regular plash-plash of the oars told of the coming of the boat from the cutter with the boatswain in command, that worthy leaping ashore, followed by half a dozen men What's on?" —  In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"
• It was a swan, and one of the very largest kind--a "trumpeter" (_Cygnus buccinator It had been feeding in a sedge of the wild rice (_Zizania aquatica_), and no doubt the sight of the canoe or the plash of the guiding oar had disturbed, and given it the alarm. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

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