Plashing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A surface colored so as to look like granite. See plash, transitive verb, 2.
  • noun. A dabbling in water; a sound of plunging water.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
  • noun. The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of plash.
  • noun. A sound that plashes, as of water.
  • noun. The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
  • noun. The dashing or sprinkling of colouring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.
  • Word Usage
    "I sipped, swallowed, glimpsed the peat bog plashing white legs of the kilted clan Macallan as the whisky kindled in my chest."
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