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▪ I. ˈplashing, vbl. n.1
[f. plash v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of plash v.1 in various senses. Also concr. A piece of plashed hedge or thicket.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxliii. (W. de W.), By plashynge [MS. plechinge] shredynge and parynge a wylowe is thycker in bowes and braunches. 1511MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for plaschyng off a heg. 1600J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 35 The passag..was very difficult..for plashin[g] made that morninge by y⊇ rebell. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 268 This is the only time for plashing of Quick-sets, and a very good season for the shrouding or lopping of Trees. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 571 What is termed plashing, that is, laying down a strong and healthy stem across an opening..in the hedge. 190419th Cent. Sept. 229 A wren..hiding out of sight behind the old level plashing upon the bank.
b. attrib., as plashing-bill, plashing-tool.
1813in Marshall Rev. Agric. (1817) V. 27 The plashing system is carried on to the greatest extent. 1890Cent. Dict., Plashing-tool, a knife used in plashing hedges; a hedging knife. 1899Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. Mar. 104 The hedge assumes under the plashing-bill the triangular shape.
▪ II. ˈplashing, vbl. n.2
[f. plash v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of plash v.2 in various senses; the dashing of water, splashing; noisy plunging; etc.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 83 Swift the sea with plasshing rusht in. 1602Heywood Woman killed w. Kindn. Wks. 1874 II. 103 Himselfe all spotted And stain'd with plashing. 1814Scott Wav. viii, Everything around..would have been silent, but for the continued plashing of the fountain. 1882O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 315 The silence was broken only by the plashing of the oars.
▪ III. ˈplashing, ppl. a.
[f. plash v.2 + -ing2.]
That plashes like dashing or falling water; that dashes against water; also fig. said of the sound.
1813Scott Rokeby i. i, Hears..by fits the plashing raindrop fall. 1814― Ld. of Isles v. xiii, The dazzled sea-fowl..Dropp'd from their crags on plashing wave. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 337 The plashing fountain at the further end of the court. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 273 Light surges a plashing silvery laughter.
b. transf. of ground, etc. on which heavy rain dashes.
1837Lytton E. Maltrav. i. ii, He heard steps without upon the plashing soil. 1841― Nt. & Morn. v. ii, Through the plashing streets. 1894Crockett Raiders 302 It was the plashing wet evening of a September day.
Hence ˈplashingly adv., with plashing.
1881Daily News 15 July 5/4 Some heavy raindrops fell plashingly. |