Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dabbling in water; a sound of plunging water.
- n. A mode of repairing or trimming a hedge, by bending down a part of the shoots, cutting them half through near the ground, to render them more pliable, and twisting them among the upright stems, so as to render the whole effective as a fence, and at the same time preserve all the branches alive.
- n. A surface colored so as to look like granite. See plash, transitive verb, 2.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of plash.
- n. A sound that plashes, as of water.
- n. The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
- n. The dashing or sprinkling of colouring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
- n. The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.
Examples
“I sipped, swallowed, glimpsed the peat bog plashing white legs of the kilted clan Macallan as the whisky kindled in my chest.”
“Life as a manipulating man will never be the same. plashing Vole”
“When Ramsey reached the line of junipers he started searching for the waterfall, following the sound of the plashing stream through a dense tangle of undergrowth.”
“That sounds like the perfect charitable act to me! plashing Vole – I take my hat off to you – that is good, fierce collecting, my friend.”
“The quiet may be briefly disturbed by the flapping of a bird in the trees above you, the rustle of a small creature in the undergrowth, or the gentle plashing of stream.”
“My eyes widen at the coincidence of plashing verticals and the stolid columns of the world.”
“Why could I not stop and piss on one, from which my liquids would surely drip and even be washed clean again, almost directly, by a rain shower, or even a drop of dew plashing from the bush, the tree, above?”
“On a mudbank a hundred yards ahead and to my right, shapes were moving - long, brown, hideously scaly dragons waddling down to the water at frightening speed, plashing into the shallows and then gliding out inexorably to head us off, their half-submerged snouts rippling the surface.”
“Heledd was walking without haste along the stretched wrist towards this stony knuckle, at one point plashing ankle-deep through shallow water to reach it; and there she sat down on the rock, gazing out to sea, towards the invisible and unknown coast of Ireland.”
“Over the side went the Danes, hoisting their plunder clear, and plashing up from the water to solid ground, to be met by their fellows on guard at the rim of the tide.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plashing’.
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forms/acts: art
threnody, eisegesis, imbricate, screed, lapis, requiem, colophon, homunculus, deus ex machina, apophthegm, anastrophe, anaphora and 47 more...
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song & sound
susurrous, calypso, rhapsody, plosive, susurrus, rhotic, caterwaul, plashing, azan, syncopation, aria, neume and 16 more...
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the sea
littoral, plashing, riffle, scend, seraphs, argosy, Scylla, Amphitrite
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word set6
calendrical, distal, egalitarian, in situ, multivariate, cryophilous, refutation, replicable, conchoidal, seeress, gigacycle, filamentous and 89 more...
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Proustian
vetiver, cheval-glass, ossature, transvertebration, orris-root, ferruginous, viaticum, rep, senescence, bengal light, madeleine, lime-blossom and 109 more...
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knitandpurl "And it had been a source of keen pleasure to him when, below the delicate line of the violin-part, slender but robust, compact and commanding, he had suddenly become aware of the mass of the piano-part beginning to surge upward in plashing waves of sound, multiform but invisible, smooth yet restless, like the deep blue tumult of the sea, silvered and charmed into a minor key by the moonlight."
-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, p 227 of the Vintage International paperback edition Jan 13, 2008