plashn.¹

Brit.

/plaʃ/, U.S.

/plæʃ/

Forms: late Old English plæsc, late Old English plesc, Middle English plasch, Middle English playche, Middle English–1500s plasche, Middle English– plash, 1500s plasshe, 1500s (1800s– English regional (Yorkshire)) plesh, 1800s– plosh (English regional (Cornwall and Yorkshire)). N.E.D. (1907) also records a form late Middle English plaisshe.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately imitative. Compare Middle Dutch plas pool (1285; also as plasch ; Dutch plas , †plasch ) pool, puddle. The Middle Dutch word was borrowed into Middle French: compare Middle French plache pool (1364), (Flanders) plascq damp meadow (1443); perhaps compare also Anglo-Norman plasseis (plural) marshes (late 13th cent.). Compare also later plash v.², flash n.¹, and plash n.²Attested earlier in place names, as Plesham (1086, with Latin accusative ending), Plesc (a1150 in a copy of a charter of 963), Plesse (1255–6), now Plaish, Shropshire. Quot. lOE at main sense is from the bounds accompanying the charter mentioned above; in these bounds it is not easy to distinguish use as a name from contextual use of the word. Compare also Melpleys (c1155; now Melplash, Dorset), Plesse (c1245, now Plash, Somerset), and the field names Costoweplaihs (1315; in Thornborough, Buckinghamshire), Waterplassh (1315; in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire), Le Coweples (1394; in Essex), Deerples (1394; in Essex). Also attested early in surnames, e.g. Hugh de la Pleisse (1227), Hugh de Laplache (1248).

English regional (chiefly northern and north midlands) in later use.

An area of shallow standing water, a marshy pool; a puddle. Also occasionally as a mass noun: marsh, mire.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > small body or puddle > [noun]

plashlOE

pulkc1300

pludc1325

puddlec1390

sumpa1450

flush1487

dub?a1513

plashet1575

pool1596

slab1610

pudge1671

flodge1696

pant1807

pothole1867

push1886

splashet1896

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 723) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 356 Ærest of plæsc in þone broc,..of mæne lege to þam broce, of þam brocæ þæt æft in plesc.

c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 6226 (MED) Eche stede stod ful, bothe plasch & polk, Of mennes blode that died there.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 2798 Betwyx a plasche and a flode appon a flate lawnde.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 799/40 Hec lacuna, Anglice, a playche of water.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcviii. 691 Before them there was a great plasshe of standynge water.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. viii. sig. T8 The red blood flowed fresh, That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ddd3 Two frogs..consulted when their plash was drie, whether they should go.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Plas, a Plash of water.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 539 When crossing any plash of water, she lifted him over.

1795 H. L. Piozzi Diary 11 May in Thraliana (1942) II. 926 A thick Skin of Ice cover'd the Plashes of Water, Pails, Cisterns &c.

1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 385 Plosh sb., puddle, liquid mire, like the sloppy mud on a road after much rain.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 116 Many a glancing plash and sallowy isle.

1895 J. Thomas Randigal Rhymes 22 Nor don't ee lag, or stag yourself By stanking through the plosh.

1930 H. Walpole Rogue Herries iii. 495 He found himself in the little dark wood,..his feet in plosh and mire.

1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 72 In the Lothians a ‘lap’ is a ‘plash, pool, place where water stands’.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 228/2 Plash, low, wet ground liable to flooding.

2002 A. Kellett Yorkshire Dict. Dial., Trad. & Folklore (ed. 2) 138/1 Plash, puddle.

Compounds

attributive and objective.

ΚΠ

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vi. 116 With shrubby osiers, and plash-louing reeds.

1678 J. Ray in tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. Pref. Placing the..Pochard..among the River or Plash-ducks.

1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 1041 I need not tell you how I distinguish the Sea-Ducks from the shallow or Plash-Ducks.

1941 N. Mitchison Diary 5 June in D. Sheridan Among you taking Notes (1986) 150 I believe I could handle a plash net myself now.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

plashn.²int.

Brit.

/plaʃ/, U.S.

/plæʃ/

Forms: 1500s– plash, 1800s– plosh; Scottish pre-1700 plasche, pre-1700 1700s plasch, pre-1700 1700s– plash, 1700s plach.

Origin: Apparently an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Apparently ultimately imitative; compare later plash v.², and also German Platsch , noun (first half of the 16th cent.), platsch , interjection (late 16th cent.). It is unclear whether plash n.¹ is etymologically related.

A. n.²

a. The sound made when a body strikes the surface of water so as to break it up, or plunges into or through it; an act accompanied by this noise; a plunge, a splash.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splashing > specific caused by impact

plasha1522

plouter1806

ploutering1862

soss1885

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xiii. 82 Than at the last, al suddanly, with a plasch, Harnes and all togiddir..[he] lap into the flude.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Downe the pilot tumbleth wyth plash round soommoned headlong.

1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. A plash, or the noise that any thing makes falling into water.

a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 62 He did let him fall with a plasch in the mides of the burn.

1799 Scots Mag. July 471 Dang her mair than paces five Amang the water wi' a plach.

1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xxxv. 369 Tweed's echoes heard the ceaseless plash, While many a broken band, Disordered, through her currents dash, To gain the Scottish land.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. vii. 185 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.

1882 C. E. L. Riddell Prince of Wales's Garden-party 65 There was the plash of a water-fowl in the stream.

1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 138 The plosh of the whizzing fuse-top into the muck.

2002 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 18 July 1 The gentle plash of the oars of our two canoes.

b. The sound made when water or other liquid falls or breaks against a body, or when masses of water dash against each other; an act producing this sound.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splashing

plashing1542

flounce1622

dash1785

plash1808

splasha1822

splosh1857

slush1880

sloshing1888

sploshing1929

1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xviii. 97 The mildew drops fell one by one, With tinkling plash, upon the stone.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxviii. 117 The short dark waves, heaved to the land, With ceaseless plash kiss'd cliff or sand.

1885 Cent. Mag. May 59/1 They were as genuine as fruit and flowers, as the glow of the fire or the plash of water.

1959 W. Golding Free Fall (1961) i. 5 The plash and splatter of the fountain.

1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 16 The pools and fountains whose plash our Somebody had savored from his singular retreat were now waterless.

†2. Perhaps: a liquid perfume for the face. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume

pimentc1300

odoramentc1384

savouringc1384

odoura1425

aromatica1513

smella1533

fume1541

perfume1542

sweet-water?1543

scent1596

pomander1600

sweets1603

bisse1608

sweet-ball1617

plash1649

suffition1656

essence1661

odoratea1682

otto1822

aroma1830

nosegay1855

foo-foo1880

1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 146 No Cabinets with curious Washes, Bladders and perfumed Plashes.

3. British regional. A heavy fall of rain, a downpour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour

floodc1275

spate1513

spout1554

gourder1565

squata1640

downpouring1669

deluge1720

pash1722

plout1740

on-ding1776

pelt1785

soaker1789

pelter1791

teem1793

pour1794

oncome1808

downpour1811

plash1820

slashing1829

plungec1841

dispunging1876

steeper1878

splurge1879

soak1891

drencher1892

toad-strangler1938

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 158/1 The thunder-rain, in large drops, came plash after plash on the blanket roof.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. v. 162 Penthouses..to keep the plash of heavy rain from the house windows.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Plash If the oak before the ash, Then we're sure to have a plash.

1929 M. Mulcaghey Rhymes 81 And then the plash came on, and we Put on our coats and came away.

1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 214/1 A heavy rainfall is termed a ‘dirty plash’.

1987 F. Graham New Geordie Dict. 36 Plash, a downpour of rain.

†4. A splash of colour or light thrown upon a surface. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > gleam or glint of > on a surface or object

sun spark1828

plash1848

sun scald1897

1848 J. R. Lowell Fable for Critics (ed. 2) Introd. 5 The tall grove of hemlocks, with moss on their stems, like plashes of sunlight.

†B. int.

Representing a splashing sound. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [adverb] > splash

swashly1582

switter-swatter1694

splash1795

plash1825

plashingly1881

splodge1898

plashily1926

splacka1960

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [interjection] > splash

plash1825

1825 N.Y. Lit. Gaz. 29 Oct. 118/1 Plash! plash! plash!—the fast-descending drops chill one into despair.

1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 31 Plash, plash, through the marsh, and then on the dry furze beyond..away fly hare and hounds towards the mountain.

1867 D. Livingstone 9 Jan. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. vii. 172 We go plash, plash, plash, in the lawn-like glade.

1897 Outing 30 354/2 Plash, plash, the great drops pelted down furious and fast.

Compounds

† plash breach n. Obsolete rare the breaking of waves against the shore.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > breaking or dashing

beating?c1225

jasch1513

wash1579

plash breach1582

breacha1616

breaking1647

plunge1781

jow1820

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 56 Theese shoars were sundred by the plash breache, fame so doth vtter... Swift the sea with plasshing rusht in.

† plash-wheel n. Obsolete rare = dash-wheel n. at dash v. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) III. 461/1 Plash-wheel, same as Dash-wheel.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plashn.³

Brit.

/plaʃ/, U.S.

/plæʃ/

Forms: 1600s plashe, 1600s– plash, 1700s plaish.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: plash v.¹

Etymology: < plash v.¹ Compare Old French plesce enclosure surrounded by hedges (end of the 12th cent.; Middle French plesse, French regional (northern and central) plaisse, plesse, also in sense ‘live hedge, branch of such a hedge’), Old Occitan plaissa (end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th cent.); also post-classical Latin pleissa, plessa pleached bush or thicket (1203, 1215 in French sources; < French).

English regional in later use (now rare).

A pleached branch, bush, or thicket. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow > plashed

plash1638

plashing1904

1638 R. Brathwait Spiritual Spicerie 427 The fresh fragrant flowers of Divine Poesie..could not like to be removed nor transported to those thorny places and plashes of the Law.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry i. 8 Avoid the laying of them too high.., which draws all the Sap into the plashes.

1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. xiii. 81 Plaishes are cut in pretty near the Bottom Part..and the Plaish or live Stick must be bent easily and warily.

1782 J. Scott Poet. Wks. 95 There hedge-row plashes yield the knotty thorn.

1827 Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 522/1 There will be one plash for every interval between the stems of the plants. You must..lay the plashes with their points all one way.

1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 178 Plash, a rod cut half through and bent down.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plashv.¹

Brit.

/plaʃ/, U.S.

/plæʃ/

Forms: late Middle English– plash, 1500s plasch, 1500s plasche, 1500s plashe, 1500s plassh, 1500s plasshe, 1500s 1700s plach, 1600s plaish; English regional 1700s plaish, 1800s plach, 1800s plesh, 1800s– plaich, 1800s– plauch (Staffordshire), 1800s– playch, 1800s– pleash, 1800s– plush, 1900s– platch; Welsh English 1900s– plush.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French plaisser.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French plaisser, plaissier (1155 in Old French; French regional plaisser ) < an unattested post-classical Latin form *plaxus , alteration of classical Latin plexus , past participle of plectere to plait, interweave, twine (see plexus n.). Compare post-classical Latin plessare to pleach (also pleissare , pleisiare , plasschare , from 1224 in British sources; < French). Compare earlier pleach v., and also plash n.³

†1.

a. transitive. To bend down and interweave (stems partly cut through, branches, and twigs) so as to form a hedge or fence. Cf. pleach v. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1495 [implied in: Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. cxliii By plashynge [a1398 BL Add. plechyng] shredynge and parynge [L. per complexionem..& tonsuram] a wylowe is thycker in bowes and braunches. (at plashing n.¹)].

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xxv. f. xliii To take a great boughe of a tree, and to plasshe the bowes abrode.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xl At euery two fote or thre fote to leaue one sette growynge nat plached and the toppe to be cutte of foure fote hygh..to stande as a stake..and to wynde the other that be pleched about them.

1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia ii. f. 54^v Cutting 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 them, they brought to passe that theis [sic] hedges were as good a defence to them as a wal.

1595 Drake's Voy. (1849) 15 Some of our men..came to the trees which they [sc. the Spaniards] had plasshed to make theyr palizadoe.

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. 7 Some againe plant Cornell Trees, and plash them..to forme them into an hedge.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 59 Arbors made of the Trees plashed one over the other.

1780 Farmer's Mag. Sept. 278 If the shrubs are very old, cut them quite down, and secure them with..dead hedges on both sides, till the young shoots are got up tall enough to plash.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 571 The hedger plashes down the stems he left standing.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlii. 35 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.

b. transitive. To interlace (growing branches, etc.) in trelliswork; to support or train against a trellis or a wall. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > cultivate fruit [verb (transitive)] > train fruit-tree

plashc1604

c1604 Charlemagne (1938) iii. 48 Our pore retyred famylie must..not be plasht or propt agaynst the walls of pallaces.

1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. xx. 131 As you vse to plash a Uine against a wall.

1648 Hunting of Fox 6 It cannot stand unles it be propped up, or plashed against a Wall.

1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 38 It is usual with some to plash them to Poles, to make a Pallisade-hedge.

1777 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 433 Repair all your decayed espaliers, with new poles, and plash and tie your fruit-trees thereto.

c. transitive. gen. To intertwine or interweave (flowers, branches, etc.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)]

wind971

braidc1000

writheOE

biwevec1300

enlacec1374

winda1387

tracec1400

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mat1577

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interweave1598

implicate1610

twine1612

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implex1635

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intertwist1797

pleach1830

impleach1865

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiii. 84 Stuck every where with most fragrant Roses and Violets, all plashed so close together, that we could not see the Rowers.

1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 66 Trees..kept (by cutting, and plaishing one branch within another) from growing very large.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 63 Thread the Brake With Thorns sharp-pointed, plash'd, and Bri'rs inwoven.

a. transitive. To make or renew (a hedge) by cutting stems partly through, bending them down, and interlacing them with growing branches and twigs, so as to form a close low fence which will grow in height; to lay (a hedge); = pleach v. 2. English regional in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > make or repair hedge [verb (transitive)]

pleacha1398

tine1522

plash?1523

reeve1821

the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > make or repair hedge [verb (transitive)] > pleach hedge

bind?1523

plash?1523

rail1577

pleach1635

edder1649

yedder1818

splash1828

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xl To plasshe or pleche a hedge.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 50 The common Hedge made of dead wood, wel staked and thicke plashed, or raylde.

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) i. vi. 20 If any of your Hedges were left vnplasht in the Spring, plash them now, for it is an excellent Season.

1775 W. Donaldson Agric. 157 The labourer that plashes the quickset.

1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 101 The practice of plashing, or laying hedges, is, in a great degree, unknown in this District.

1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. ii. 34 A want of circulation in the air, rendered stagnant by high hedges, may be considered as having a tendency to mildew: hedges should always be plashed against a wheat field.

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 336 The fences..have been plashed and laid.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. ii. 14 The lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed.

1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside ix. 184 The Romans knew about plashing a hedge, but it was evidently a wonder of far-off lands and was not familiar in the Italian countryside.

1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 63 Plash,..to cut partly through and bend the branches of a hedge and then partially covering with soil so that fresh shoots are produced. To ‘lay’ a hedge.

2000 Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 28 Mar. 6 As far as possible even public roads were the responsibility of adjacent owners or occupiers who had to plash their hedges and cleanse their water courses to order.

†b. transitive. To lash (a wooded area) about in this way, in order to obstruct a pass or entrance, or defend a fastness; to form into a defence by such interweaving. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [verb (transitive)] > interweave branches

plash1587

wale1852

1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. v. 7/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They..did fell downe trees, plashed the wood, cast great trenches and ditches round about, and made it so strict, narrow, crooked, and strong, that there was no passage nor entrie for the enimie.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xiv. 211 In a strong Fastnesse of Bogg and Wood, which was on every quarter plashed.

1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 81 To plash the sides (or outer brinks of the mounds), and shovel out the ditches.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1735/1 Plash, to interweave branches, as for gabions, dikes, weirs, hurdles, etc.

†3. transitive. To bend or break down (a tree, bush, or plant). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > break down (trees, etc.)

plash?1615

?1615 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome (new ed.) ii. vii. 314 Too much plentie plasheth downe the corne.

1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas Past. Ded. 5 Plash thistles and presumptuous thorns That neare the way grow up among the corns.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 30 Christiana's Boys..being pleas'd with the Trees, and with the Fruit that did hang thereon, did Plash them, and began to eat.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Hart Let him plash down small Twigs, some above and some below.

1792 A. Whitting Let. 22 Jan. in G. Washington Papers (2000) Presidential Ser. IX. 497 The Thorn hedge..I informd Major Washington my intention of plashing it next Spring.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

plashv.²

Brit.

/plaʃ/, U.S.

/plæʃ/

Forms: 1500s plashe, 1500s plassh, 1500s– plash, 1600s 1800s– plosh (English regional (Yorkshire and Cornwall)), 1800s– plesh (English regional (Yorkshire)).

Origin: Apparently an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Apparently ultimately imitative. Compare earlier plash n.², and also early modern Dutch plasschen (1504 in the phrase wasschen en plasschen to wash (clothes); 1573 in sense ‘to splash around in water’; used intransitively), plassen (1557 or earlier in sense ‘to splash around in water’); Dutch plassen , Middle Low German plassen , plasken , Swedish plaska (c1635). It is unclear whether the English word or its parallels in other Germanic languages are etymologically related to much earlier plash n.¹; a connection with plat v.¹ (compare the cognates cited at that entry) has also been suggested. Compare also later splash v.¹ Compare earlier plashing n.²

a. transitive. To break the surface of, plunge into, or otherwise stir up (water or other liquid) with commotion and splashing. Scottish (Shetland) in later use. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (transitive)] > splash

plash1565

splash1879

1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vii. sig. AA.iij For euen the fyshe when fyshers harde with poales the floudes doe plashe.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 28 Two serpents monsterus ouglye Plasht the water sulcking to the shoare moste hastelye swinging.

1600 J. Weever Favnvs & Melliflora sig. C^v For when their snow-white [I]uorie hands would plash it [sc. the water].

1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 296 Unless they lay themselves down to be trampl'd under foot, plash'd like Mortar, or abjure their Religion.

1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Floush, to plash and beat water about with violence as boys frequently do when bathing.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 97 We must go and plash up the mud a little.

1896 H. D. Rawnsley Ballads of Brave Deeds 50 White English hands to silver plashed The water's sapphire hue.

1904 Dennison's Orcadian Sketches (new ed.) 6 Some o' de whalls lep' half oot o' de sea, an' dan fell wi' a vellye, plashan' de bleud an' water aroond ever sae far.

b. transitive. To splash or dash (a person or thing) with breaking water or other liquid so as to wet. Also figurative. Also intransitive. Now Scottish (Shetland). Sc. National Dict. at plash n. records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1966.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)]

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splosh1930

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)]

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souse1859

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1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lvii. 253 Where Massacres haue plashed there is spread a triple Breede.

1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 1 My Aduersarie..hath plashed me, as it were, with these aspersions.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Plash, to dash with Water.

1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 59 His Lordships..coaches owr the dubs to plash him.

1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 74 The floor all plashed with blood.

1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 90 Had I but such a Naiad..To plash her large limbs in the waves for me!

†c. transitive. To dash (a wall) with wet matter, so as rapidly to colour or cover it. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with other materials

pitcheOE

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puddle1844

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TP1962

toilet-paper1964

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Plashing,..the dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, as an imitation of granite, and the like.

a. intransitive. To strike and break the surface of water with a splashing sound; to move through water splashily; to splash about.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > splash

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1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 129 Every stroake that plashed upon those waters of life gave both life and music.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 81 My boots..are better then gramashes For me who through the dubbs so plashes.

1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 29 Thro' thick and thin they scour'd about, Plashin thro' Dubs and Sykes.

1746 D. Graham Coll. Writings (1883) I. 172 Long eighteen hours this stage it was, Through a long Muir all wet to plash.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine viii The fish were jumping and plashing.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xv The two long oars plashed in the silence.

1898 G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum 304 We plashed through the water.

1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep x. 188 We plashed through the burn.

1997 Washington Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. b8 That unforgettable entrance—the rifle report, the cavalry escort plashing through a stream.

b. intransitive. Of water or other liquid: to dash against or upon a body or place; to tumble about making a splashing sound. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > bubble or gurgle

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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > at something

plash1665

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1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 412 The salt water plashes and froaths to see it self so suddenly resisted.

1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe viii. 117 Plashing continually upon one spot, the fount has worn its own little channel of white sand.

1841 W. H. Ainsworth Old St. Pauls vi. vii Another fiery cascade..flooding the aisles and plashing against the massive columns.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xvi. 222 Far below him plashed the waters.

1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 195 With large rain plashing on the walls and windows.

1966 A. L. Rowse Diary 20 Feb. (2003) 363 We paused at the corner, to listen to the stream plashing deep in the glen.

1978 D. Marechera House of Hunger 31 It poured darkly; plashed; gutted; broke down upon our heads like a smack of fist.

1998 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn ii. 33 A ferny grotto where fountains ceaselessly plashed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

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单词	plash
释义	plashn.¹ Brit. /plaʃ/, U.S. /plæʃ/ Forms: late Old English plæsc, late Old English plesc, Middle English plasch, Middle English playche, Middle English–1500s plasche, Middle English– plash, 1500s plasshe, 1500s (1800s– English regional (Yorkshire)) plesh, 1800s– plosh (English regional (Cornwall and Yorkshire)). N.E.D. (1907) also records a form late Middle English plaisshe. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately imitative. Compare Middle Dutch plas pool (1285; also as plasch ; Dutch plas , †plasch ) pool, puddle. The Middle Dutch word was borrowed into Middle French: compare Middle French plache pool (1364), (Flanders) plascq damp meadow (1443); perhaps compare also Anglo-Norman plasseis (plural) marshes (late 13th cent.). Compare also later plash v.², flash n.¹, and plash n.²Attested earlier in place names, as Plesham (1086, with Latin accusative ending), Plesc (a1150 in a copy of a charter of 963), Plesse (1255–6), now Plaish, Shropshire. Quot. lOE at main sense is from the bounds accompanying the charter mentioned above; in these bounds it is not easy to distinguish use as a name from contextual use of the word. Compare also Melpleys (c1155; now Melplash, Dorset), Plesse (c1245, now Plash, Somerset), and the field names Costoweplaihs (1315; in Thornborough, Buckinghamshire), Waterplassh (1315; in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire), Le Coweples (1394; in Essex), Deerples (1394; in Essex). Also attested early in surnames, e.g. Hugh de la Pleisse (1227), Hugh de Laplache (1248). English regional (chiefly northern and north midlands) in later use. An area of shallow standing water, a marshy pool; a puddle. Also occasionally as a mass noun: marsh, mire. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > small body or puddle > [noun] plashlOE pulkc1300 pludc1325 puddlec1390 sumpa1450 flush1487 dub?a1513 plashet1575 pool1596 slab1610 pudge1671 flodge1696 pant1807 pothole1867 push1886 splashet1896 lOE Bounds (Sawyer 723) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 356 Ærest of plæsc in þone broc,..of mæne lege to þam broce, of þam brocæ þæt æft in plesc. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 6226 (MED) Eche stede stod ful, bothe plasch & polk, Of mennes blode that died there. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 2798 Betwyx a plasche and a flode appon a flate lawnde. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 799/40 Hec lacuna, Anglice, a playche of water. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcviii. 691 Before them there was a great plasshe of standynge water. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. viii. sig. T8 The red blood flowed fresh, That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ddd3 Two frogs..consulted when their plash was drie, whether they should go. View more context for this quotation 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Plas, a Plash of water. 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 539 When crossing any plash of water, she lifted him over. 1795 H. L. Piozzi Diary 11 May in Thraliana (1942) II. 926 A thick Skin of Ice cover'd the Plashes of Water, Pails, Cisterns &c. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 385 Plosh sb., puddle, liquid mire, like the sloppy mud on a road after much rain. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 116 Many a glancing plash and sallowy isle. 1895 J. Thomas Randigal Rhymes 22 Nor don't ee lag, or stag yourself By stanking through the plosh. 1930 H. Walpole Rogue Herries iii. 495 He found himself in the little dark wood,..his feet in plosh and mire. 1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 72 In the Lothians a ‘lap’ is a ‘plash, pool, place where water stands’. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 228/2 Plash, low, wet ground liable to flooding. 2002 A. Kellett Yorkshire Dict. Dial., Trad. & Folklore (ed. 2) 138/1 Plash, puddle. Compounds attributive and objective. ΚΠ 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vi. 116 With shrubby osiers, and plash-louing reeds. 1678 J. Ray in tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. Pref. Placing the..Pochard..among the River or Plash-ducks. 1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 1041 I need not tell you how I distinguish the Sea-Ducks from the shallow or Plash-Ducks. 1941 N. Mitchison Diary 5 June in D. Sheridan Among you taking Notes (1986) 150 I believe I could handle a plash net myself now. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). plashn.²int. Brit. /plaʃ/, U.S. /plæʃ/ Forms: 1500s– plash, 1800s– plosh; Scottish pre-1700 plasche, pre-1700 1700s plasch, pre-1700 1700s– plash, 1700s plach. Origin: Apparently an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Apparently ultimately imitative; compare later plash v.², and also German Platsch , noun (first half of the 16th cent.), platsch , interjection (late 16th cent.). It is unclear whether plash n.¹ is etymologically related. A. n.² 1. a. The sound made when a body strikes the surface of water so as to break it up, or plunges into or through it; an act accompanied by this noise; a plunge, a splash. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splashing > specific caused by impact plasha1522 plouter1806 ploutering1862 soss1885 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xiii. 82 Than at the last, al suddanly, with a plasch, Harnes and all togiddir..[he] lap into the flude. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 4 Downe the pilot tumbleth wyth plash round soommoned headlong. 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. A plash, or the noise that any thing makes falling into water. a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 62 He did let him fall with a plasch in the mides of the burn. 1799 Scots Mag. July 471 Dang her mair than paces five Amang the water wi' a plach. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xxxv. 369 Tweed's echoes heard the ceaseless plash, While many a broken band, Disordered, through her currents dash, To gain the Scottish land. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. vii. 185 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. 1882 C. E. L. Riddell Prince of Wales's Garden-party 65 There was the plash of a water-fowl in the stream. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 138 The plosh of the whizzing fuse-top into the muck. 2002 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 18 July 1 The gentle plash of the oars of our two canoes. b. The sound made when water or other liquid falls or breaks against a body, or when masses of water dash against each other; an act producing this sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splashing plashing1542 flounce1622 dash1785 plash1808 splasha1822 splosh1857 slush1880 sloshing1888 sploshing1929 1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xviii. 97 The mildew drops fell one by one, With tinkling plash, upon the stone. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxviii. 117 The short dark waves, heaved to the land, With ceaseless plash kiss'd cliff or sand. 1885 Cent. Mag. May 59/1 They were as genuine as fruit and flowers, as the glow of the fire or the plash of water. 1959 W. Golding Free Fall (1961) i. 5 The plash and splatter of the fountain. 1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 16 The pools and fountains whose plash our Somebody had savored from his singular retreat were now waterless. †2. Perhaps: a liquid perfume for the face. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume pimentc1300 odoramentc1384 savouringc1384 odoura1425 aromatica1513 smella1533 fume1541 perfume1542 sweet-water?1543 scent1596 pomander1600 sweets1603 bisse1608 sweet-ball1617 plash1649 suffition1656 essence1661 odoratea1682 otto1822 aroma1830 nosegay1855 foo-foo1880 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 146 No Cabinets with curious Washes, Bladders and perfumed Plashes. 3. British regional. A heavy fall of rain, a downpour. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour floodc1275 spate1513 spout1554 gourder1565 squata1640 downpouring1669 deluge1720 pash1722 plout1740 on-ding1776 pelt1785 soaker1789 pelter1791 teem1793 pour1794 oncome1808 downpour1811 plash1820 slashing1829 plungec1841 dispunging1876 steeper1878 splurge1879 soak1891 drencher1892 toad-strangler1938 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 158/1 The thunder-rain, in large drops, came plash after plash on the blanket roof. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. v. 162 Penthouses..to keep the plash of heavy rain from the house windows. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Plash If the oak before the ash, Then we're sure to have a plash. 1929 M. Mulcaghey Rhymes 81 And then the plash came on, and we Put on our coats and came away. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 214/1 A heavy rainfall is termed a ‘dirty plash’. 1987 F. Graham New Geordie Dict. 36 Plash, a downpour of rain. †4. A splash of colour or light thrown upon a surface. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > gleam or glint of > on a surface or object sun spark1828 plash1848 sun scald1897 1848 J. R. Lowell Fable for Critics (ed. 2) Introd. 5 The tall grove of hemlocks, with moss on their stems, like plashes of sunlight. †B. int. Representing a splashing sound. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [adverb] > splash swashly1582 switter-swatter1694 splash1795 plash1825 plashingly1881 splodge1898 plashily1926 splacka1960 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [interjection] > splash plash1825 1825 N.Y. Lit. Gaz. 29 Oct. 118/1 Plash! plash! plash!—the fast-descending drops chill one into despair. 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 31 Plash, plash, through the marsh, and then on the dry furze beyond..away fly hare and hounds towards the mountain. 1867 D. Livingstone 9 Jan. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. vii. 172 We go plash, plash, plash, in the lawn-like glade. 1897 Outing 30 354/2 Plash, plash, the great drops pelted down furious and fast. Compounds † plash breach n. Obsolete rare the breaking of waves against the shore. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > breaking or dashing beating?c1225 jasch1513 wash1579 plash breach1582 breacha1616 breaking1647 plunge1781 jow1820 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 56 Theese shoars were sundred by the plash breache, fame so doth vtter... Swift the sea with plasshing rusht in. † plash-wheel n. Obsolete rare = dash-wheel n. at dash v. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) III. 461/1 Plash-wheel, same as Dash-wheel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plashn.³ Brit. /plaʃ/, U.S. /plæʃ/ Forms: 1600s plashe, 1600s– plash, 1700s plaish. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: plash v.¹ Etymology: < plash v.¹ Compare Old French plesce enclosure surrounded by hedges (end of the 12th cent.; Middle French plesse, French regional (northern and central) plaisse, plesse, also in sense ‘live hedge, branch of such a hedge’), Old Occitan plaissa (end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th cent.); also post-classical Latin pleissa, plessa pleached bush or thicket (1203, 1215 in French sources; < French). English regional in later use (now rare). A pleached branch, bush, or thicket. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > hedge or hedgerow > plashed plash1638 plashing1904 1638 R. Brathwait Spiritual Spicerie 427 The fresh fragrant flowers of Divine Poesie..could not like to be removed nor transported to those thorny places and plashes of the Law. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry i. 8 Avoid the laying of them too high.., which draws all the Sap into the plashes. 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. xiii. 81 Plaishes are cut in pretty near the Bottom Part..and the Plaish or live Stick must be bent easily and warily. 1782 J. Scott Poet. Wks. 95 There hedge-row plashes yield the knotty thorn. 1827 Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 522/1 There will be one plash for every interval between the stems of the plants. You must..lay the plashes with their points all one way. 1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 178 Plash, a rod cut half through and bent down. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plashv.¹ Brit. /plaʃ/, U.S. /plæʃ/ Forms: late Middle English– plash, 1500s plasch, 1500s plasche, 1500s plashe, 1500s plassh, 1500s plasshe, 1500s 1700s plach, 1600s plaish; English regional 1700s plaish, 1800s plach, 1800s plesh, 1800s– plaich, 1800s– plauch (Staffordshire), 1800s– playch, 1800s– pleash, 1800s– plush, 1900s– platch; Welsh English 1900s– plush. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French plaisser. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French plaisser, plaissier (1155 in Old French; French regional plaisser ) < an unattested post-classical Latin form plaxus , alteration of classical Latin plexus* , past participle of plectere to plait, interweave, twine (see plexus n.). Compare post-classical Latin plessare to pleach (also pleissare , pleisiare , plasschare , from 1224 in British sources; < French). Compare earlier pleach v., and also plash n.³ †1. a. transitive. To bend down and interweave (stems partly cut through, branches, and twigs) so as to form a hedge or fence. Cf. pleach v. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1495 [implied in: Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. cxliii By plashynge [a1398 BL Add. plechyng] shredynge and parynge [L. per complexionem..& tonsuram] a wylowe is thycker in bowes and braunches. (at plashing n.¹)]. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xxv. f. xliii To take a great boughe of a tree, and to plasshe the bowes abrode. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xl At euery two fote or thre fote to leaue one sette growynge nat plached and the toppe to be cutte of foure fote hygh..to stande as a stake..and to wynde the other that be pleched about them. 1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia ii. f. 54^v Cutting 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 them, they brought to passe that theis [sic] hedges were as good a defence to them as a wal. 1595 Drake's Voy. (1849) 15 Some of our men..came to the trees which they [sc. the Spaniards] had plasshed to make theyr palizadoe. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. 7 Some againe plant Cornell Trees, and plash them..to forme them into an hedge. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 59 Arbors made of the Trees plashed one over the other. 1780 Farmer's Mag. Sept. 278 If the shrubs are very old, cut them quite down, and secure them with..dead hedges on both sides, till the young shoots are got up tall enough to plash. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 571 The hedger plashes down the stems he left standing. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlii. 35 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. b. transitive. To interlace (growing branches, etc.) in trelliswork; to support or train against a trellis or a wall. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > cultivate fruit [verb (transitive)] > train fruit-tree plashc1604 c1604 Charlemagne (1938) iii. 48 Our pore retyred famylie must..not be plasht or propt agaynst the walls of pallaces. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. ii. xx. 131 As you vse to plash a Uine against a wall. 1648 Hunting of Fox 6 It cannot stand unles it be propped up, or plashed against a Wall. 1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 38 It is usual with some to plash them to Poles, to make a Pallisade-hedge. 1777 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 433 Repair all your decayed espaliers, with new poles, and plash and tie your fruit-trees thereto. c. transitive. gen. To intertwine or interweave (flowers, branches, etc.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > intertwine or interweave [verb (transitive)] wind971 braidc1000 writheOE biwevec1300 enlacec1374 winda1387 tracec1400 bredec1440 knit1470 embraid1481 interlace1523 entrail?1530 wreathea1547 beknit1565 twist1565 wand1572 embroid1573 mat1577 complect1578 intertex1578 inweave1578 lace1579 plight1589 entwine1597 bewreath1598 interweave1598 implicate1610 twine1612 complicatea1631 implex1635 intertwine1641 plash1653 enwreathe1667 raddle1671 intertwist1797 pleach1830 impleach1865 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiii. 84 Stuck every where with most fragrant Roses and Violets, all plashed so close together, that we could not see the Rowers. 1657 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) 66 Trees..kept (by cutting, and plaishing one branch within another) from growing very large. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 63 Thread the Brake With Thorns sharp-pointed, plash'd, and Bri'rs inwoven. 2. a. transitive. To make or renew (a hedge) by cutting stems partly through, bending them down, and interlacing them with growing branches and twigs, so as to form a close low fence which will grow in height; to lay (a hedge); = pleach v. 2. English regional in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > make or repair hedge [verb (transitive)] pleacha1398 tine1522 plash?1523 reeve1821 the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > make or repair hedge [verb (transitive)] > pleach hedge bind?1523 plash?1523 rail1577 pleach1635 edder1649 yedder1818 splash1828 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xl To plasshe or pleche a hedge. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 50 The common Hedge made of dead wood, wel staked and thicke plashed, or raylde. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) i. vi. 20 If any of your Hedges were left vnplasht in the Spring, plash them now, for it is an excellent Season. 1775 W. Donaldson Agric. 157 The labourer that plashes the quickset. 1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 101 The practice of plashing, or laying hedges, is, in a great degree, unknown in this District. 1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. ii. 34 A want of circulation in the air, rendered stagnant by high hedges, may be considered as having a tendency to mildew: hedges should always be plashed against a wheat field. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 336 The fences..have been plashed and laid. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. ii. 14 The lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed. 1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside ix. 184 The Romans knew about plashing a hedge, but it was evidently a wonder of far-off lands and was not familiar in the Italian countryside. 1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 63 Plash,..to cut partly through and bend the branches of a hedge and then partially covering with soil so that fresh shoots are produced. To ‘lay’ a hedge. 2000 Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 28 Mar. 6 As far as possible even public roads were the responsibility of adjacent owners or occupiers who had to plash their hedges and cleanse their water courses to order. †b. transitive. To lash (a wooded area) about in this way, in order to obstruct a pass or entrance, or defend a fastness; to form into a defence by such interweaving. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [verb (transitive)] > interweave branches plash1587 wale1852 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. v. 7/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They..did fell downe trees, plashed the wood, cast great trenches and ditches round about, and made it so strict, narrow, crooked, and strong, that there was no passage nor entrie for the enimie. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xiv. 211 In a strong Fastnesse of Bogg and Wood, which was on every quarter plashed. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 81 To plash the sides (or outer brinks of the mounds), and shovel out the ditches. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1735/1 Plash, to interweave branches, as for gabions, dikes, weirs, hurdles, etc. †3. transitive. To bend or break down (a tree, bush, or plant). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > break down (trees, etc.) plash?1615 ?1615 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome (new ed.) ii. vii. 314 Too much plentie plasheth downe the corne. 1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas Past. Ded. 5 Plash thistles and presumptuous thorns That neare the way grow up among the corns. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 30 Christiana's Boys..being pleas'd with the Trees, and with the Fruit that did hang thereon, did Plash them, and began to eat. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Hart Let him plash down small Twigs, some above and some below. 1792 A. Whitting Let. 22 Jan. in G. Washington Papers (2000) Presidential Ser. IX. 497 The Thorn hedge..I informd Major Washington my intention of plashing it next Spring. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plashv.² Brit. /plaʃ/, U.S. /plæʃ/ Forms: 1500s plashe, 1500s plassh, 1500s– plash, 1600s 1800s– plosh (English regional (Yorkshire and Cornwall)), 1800s– plesh (English regional (Yorkshire)). Origin: Apparently an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Apparently ultimately imitative. Compare earlier plash n.², and also early modern Dutch plasschen (1504 in the phrase wasschen en plasschen to wash (clothes); 1573 in sense ‘to splash around in water’; used intransitively), plassen (1557 or earlier in sense ‘to splash around in water’); Dutch plassen , Middle Low German plassen , plasken , Swedish plaska (c1635). It is unclear whether the English word or its parallels in other Germanic languages are etymologically related to much earlier plash n.¹; a connection with plat v.¹ (compare the cognates cited at that entry) has also been suggested. Compare also later splash v.¹ Compare earlier plashing n.² 1. a. transitive. To break the surface of, plunge into, or otherwise stir up (water or other liquid) with commotion and splashing. Scottish (Shetland) in later use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (transitive)] > splash plash1565 splash1879 1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vii. sig. AA.iij For euen the fyshe when fyshers harde with poales the floudes doe plashe. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 28 Two serpents monsterus ouglye Plasht the water sulcking to the shoare moste hastelye swinging. 1600 J. Weever Favnvs & Melliflora sig. C^v For when their snow-white [I]uorie hands would plash it [sc. the water]. 1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 296 Unless they lay themselves down to be trampl'd under foot, plash'd like Mortar, or abjure their Religion. 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Floush, to plash and beat water about with violence as boys frequently do when bathing. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 97 We must go and plash up the mud a little. 1896 H. D. Rawnsley Ballads of Brave Deeds 50 White English hands to silver plashed The water's sapphire hue. 1904 Dennison's Orcadian Sketches (new ed.) 6 Some o' de whalls lep' half oot o' de sea, an' dan fell wi' a vellye, plashan' de bleud an' water aroond ever sae far. b. transitive. To splash or dash (a person or thing) with breaking water or other liquid so as to wet. Also figurative. Also intransitive. Now Scottish (Shetland). Sc. National Dict. at plash n. records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1966. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] aflasha1387 flouse1567 plash1596 splash1715 splather1877 splosh1930 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] flouse1567 plash1596 splash1762 jaup?a1800 sozzle1845 souse1859 splosh1904 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lvii. 253 Where Massacres haue plashed there is spread a triple Breede. 1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 1 My Aduersarie..hath plashed me, as it were, with these aspersions. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Plash, to dash with Water. 1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 59 His Lordships..coaches owr the dubs to plash him. 1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 74 The floor all plashed with blood. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 90 Had I but such a Naiad..To plash her large limbs in the waves for me! †c. transitive. To dash (a wall) with wet matter, so as rapidly to colour or cover it. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > clad or cover with other materials pitcheOE lute1495 loam1600 bitume1609 wainscota1631 mud1632 putty1719 compo1809 belute1837 smear1839 puddle1844 plash1864 canvas1865 cement1886 TP1962 toilet-paper1964 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Plashing,..the dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, as an imitation of granite, and the like. 2. a. intransitive. To strike and break the surface of water with a splashing sound; to move through water splashily; to splash about. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > splash paskc1300 jaup1513 plash1650 squash1671 swattle1671 slumpa1677 splash1715 quash1739 pash1855 slush1883 sloosh1914 1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 129 Every stroake that plashed upon those waters of life gave both life and music. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 81 My boots..are better then gramashes For me who through the dubbs so plashes. 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 29 Thro' thick and thin they scour'd about, Plashin thro' Dubs and Sykes. 1746 D. Graham Coll. Writings (1883) I. 172 Long eighteen hours this stage it was, Through a long Muir all wet to plash. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine viii The fish were jumping and plashing. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xv The two long oars plashed in the silence. 1898 G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum 304 We plashed through the water. 1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep x. 188 We plashed through the burn. 1997 Washington Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. b8 That unforgettable entrance—the rifle report, the cavalry escort plashing through a stream. b. intransitive. Of water or other liquid: to dash against or upon a body or place; to tumble about making a splashing sound. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > bubble or gurgle blubberc1400 bubblea1475 gurl1635 plash1665 gargle1681 gurgle1713 guggle1755 papple1755 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > at something plash1665 slush1900 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 412 The salt water plashes and froaths to see it self so suddenly resisted. 1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe viii. 117 Plashing continually upon one spot, the fount has worn its own little channel of white sand. 1841 W. H. Ainsworth Old St. Pauls vi. vii Another fiery cascade..flooding the aisles and plashing against the massive columns. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xvi. 222 Far below him plashed the waters. 1929 C. Aiken Sel. Poems 195 With large rain plashing on the walls and windows. 1966 A. L. Rowse Diary 20 Feb. (2003) 363 We paused at the corner, to listen to the stream plashing deep in the glen. 1978 D. Marechera House of Hunger 31 It poured darkly; plashed; gutted; broke down upon our heads like a smack of fist. 1998 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Rings of Saturn ii. 33 A ferny grotto where fountains ceaselessly plashed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹lOEn.²int.a1522n.³1638v.¹1495v.²1565
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