swash

• The vessel heeled a little and the lapping water changed its tune to a swash-swash as the hull pushed it aside. —  Blackbeard: Buccaneer
• On the 26th of the same month, the Turkish principal fleet, that is to say, their ships of the line, frigates, &c;, having got themselves near the swash, at the mouth of the Borysthenes, the Prince of Nassau took advantage of their position, attacked them while so engaged in the mud that they could not manoeuvre, burnt six, among which were the admiral's and vice-admiral's, took two, and made between three and four thousand prisoners. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2
• "Swish, swash--there go your fields and your stone bridge. —  The Guest of Quesnay
• The little buccaneers made their own eye patches, and dressed up in swash-buckling costumes and hats. —  Evening Mail news round-up
• I could hear the combers sweeping the bow and the down-swash of the overflow striking the deck below. —  The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women

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