plash

noun

1. (Midlands, North, Northern-England, countable)A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.

   “And ſo than they of Bruges began to ſhote gonnes at thẽ. And than they of Gaũt diſcharged at ones thre .C. gonnes at one ſhotte: and ſo tourned a bout the plaſſhe of water and cauſed the ſon⸝ to be in the eyen of thẽ of Bruges⸝ the which greued them ſore: […]”

   “Out of the vvound the redblood flovved freſh, / That vnderneath his feet ſoone made a purple pleſh.”

   “[I]t is plain that we should much more dislike, abominate, and shun spiritual evils than temporal; […] that we should run willingly into these shallow plashes of present inconvenience, rather than plunge ourselves into those unfathomable depths of eternal misery.”

   “Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash?”

2. A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.

   “One ſhip that Lycius did ſhrowd with faithful Orontes / In ſight of captayne was ſwaſht with a royſterus heapefloud. / Downe the pilot tumbleth with plaſh round ſummoned headlong, / Thriſe the grauel thumping in whirlpoole plunged, is hooule'd: […]”

   “The mildew drops fell one by one, / With tinkling plash, upon the stone.”

   “The short dark waves, heaved to the land, / With ceaseless plash kiss'd cliff or sand;— […]”

   “Mr Christian here let a lemon slip from his hand into the punch-bowl with a plash which sent some of the nectar into the company's faces.”

   “Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash, and as we listened we watched it in silence.”

3. (UK, dialectal)A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.

   “Penthouses five stories high, not so much for the protection of the people in the street as to keep the plash of heavy rain from the house windows, so that these might be the more safely open.”

4. (figuratively, obsolete, rare)A splash of light on a surface.

   “The waterfall, scattering its vanishing gems; the tall grove of hemlocks, with moss on their stems, like plashes of sunlight; […]”

5. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive)A plant stem which has been partly cut, bent down, and intertwined with other stems to make or repair a hedge; also, a bush, hedge, etc., which has been pleached in this manner; a pleach.

   “[T]he freſh fragrant flovvers of Divine Poeſie and Morall Philoſophy could not like vvell to be removed, nor tranſported to thoſe thorny places and plaſhes of the Lavv.”

verb

1. (also, figuratively, transitive)To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.

   “When the halcyon is sporting far out on the seas, / In the beach's bright ripple thou plashest thy wings, / And tossest the spray from the shore-eddied rings.”

2. (also, figuratively, transitive)To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.

   “to plash a wall in imitation of granite”

3. (Shetland, archaic, transitive)To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.

   “Then, loa ye, from Tenedos through ſtanding deepe floud apeaſed^([sic – meaning appeared?]) / (I ſhiuer in telling) two ſerpents monſterus ouglie / Plaſht the water ſulcking to the ſhoare moſt haſtily ſwinging.”

   “[U]nleſs they lay themſelves dovvn to be trampl'd under foot, plaſh'd like Mortar, or abjure their Religion, the ſame Calamities, the ſame Slaughters, hang over their Heads, […]”

   “"[…] We must go and plash up the mud a little, mustn't we, Juno?" This was addressed to the brown setter, who had jumped up at the sound of the voices and laid her nose in an insinuating way on her master's leg.”

4. (intransitive)To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.

   “Thro thick and thin they ſcour'd about, / Plaſhin thro Dubs and Sykes, […]”

   “At last, by hap, through some young trees it [a lance] struck, / And, plashing among bedded pebbles, stuck / In the middle of a brook,— […]”

   “[O]n and onward still thou [a deer] dashedst, / And in the lake's blue calmness plashedst, / As if by hound pursu'd.”

   “As she walked towards the lane that morning, how well she remembered each spot as she passed it, and the look it wore for the last time! How the smoke was rising from the pastures, how the fish were jumping and plashing in the millstream!”

   “The two long oars plashed in the silence, we glided onwards through the cold mists, and the woods of the opposite shore were now coming near.”

5. (also, figuratively, intransitive)Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.

   “[T]he ſalt vvater plaſhes and froaths to ſee it ſelf ſo ſuddenly reſiſted: but the moiſt breath uſually vaporing in or upon the Seas makes it ſometimes turbulent.”

   “The stream is so slender, that the gentlest breeze suffices to disturb its descent, and to scatter its pure sweet waters over the face of the cliff. But in that deep forest there is seldom a breath of wind; so that, plashing continually upon one spot, the fount has worn its own little channel of white sand, by which it finds its way to the river.”

   “[H]eedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained calling, at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.”

   “Far below him plashed the waters, / Plashed and washed the dreamy waters; […]”

6. (Shetland, archaic, intransitive)To hit someone or something with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.

   “In clammie waies he treaddeth by and by, / And plasheth and sprayeth all that be him nye.”

   “For blood of Martyrs vvell is ſaid to be the Churches Seede, / VVhere Maſſacres haue plaſhed there is ſpread a triple Breede.”

7. (UK, dialectal, transitive)Synonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending them down, and intertwining them with other stems”).

   “[I]n the months of Ianuarie and Februarie he ſhall firſt plaſh and cut his Hedges and Quick-ſets, that thereby they may grovv thicke and ſtrong at the bottomes: […]”

   “It is almoſt incredible to vvhat perfection ſome had laid theſe Hedges, by the rural vvay of plaſhing, better than by clipping; […]”

   “[T]here was not, at this season, a green pasture—nothing but fallow and turnips everywhere; in large fields divided by hedges plashed to unrelieved levels.”

8. (obsolete, transitive)To bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.

   “[C]utting yong trees half a ſunder and bowyng downe theyr toppes to the ground, and plaſſhing the boughes that growe thicke oute of the ſydes wyth buſhes and thornes betwene thẽ [them], they brought to paſſe that theis [these] hedges were as good a defence to them as a wal: […]”

   “Some againe plant Cornell Trees, and plaſh them, or keepe them lovve, to forme them into an hedge.”

   “There were few trees, or none, those that would have grown in the hedges being mercilessly plashed down with the quickset by the tenant-farmers, the natural enemies of tree, bush, and brake”

9. (obsolete, transitive)To bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.

   “You knovv that there vvas an Orchard on the left hand, and ſome of the Trees hung over the VVall, and my Brother did plaſh and did eat.”

   “[L]et him plaſh dovvn ſmall Tvvigs, ſome above and ſome belovv, and then vvhilſt the Hound is hot, beat the outſides, and make his Ring-VValks tvvice or thrice about the VVood,”

10. (obsolete, transitive)To intertwine (branches or stems of plants) on a trellis; to trellis; also, to train (a tree or other plant) to grow against a wall; to espalier.

    “[A]s your Uine groweth you ſhall draw it through thoſe holes, and as you vſe to plaſh a Uine againſt a wall, ſo you ſhall plaſh this againſt the glaſſe window, on the in-ſide, and ſo ſoone as it ſhall beginne to beare Grapes you ſhall be ſure to turne euery bunch, ſo that it may lye cloſe to the glaſſe, that the reflection of the Sunne heating the glaſſe, that heate may haſten on the ripening, ⁊ increaſe the groath of your Grapes: […]”

11. (obsolete, transitive)To intertwine (branches or stems of plants) on a trellis; to trellis; also, to train (a tree or other plant) to grow against a wall; to espalier.
12. (obsolete, transitive)To intertwine branches or stems of plants of (a wood) to block a passage for defensive purposes.

intj

1. (obsolete)Used to represent the sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something.

   “In the ooze generally the water comes half-way up the shoe, and we go plash, plash, plash, in the lawn-like glade.”