plashing

noun — 3 senses

plashing

noun
1

A sound that plashes, as of water.

  • Barest plashings of a liquid sphere; eloquent breathings of an emerald world...1862, Samuel Ward Francis, Inside out: a curious book, page 216:
2

The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.

3

The dashing or sprinkling of colouring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

Derived terms
plashingly

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