单词 | plashing |
释义 | plashingn.1 The action of plash v.1 Also concrete: a piece of plashed hedge or thicket. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] hedgingc1380 pleachinga1398 plashing1495 tining1522 side-haying1610 switching1812 splashing1869 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > of intertwined branches plashingc1600 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 1495 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. 1511 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for plaschyng off a heg. c1600 J. Dymmok Treat. Ireland (1842) 35 The passag..was very difficult..for plashin [g] made that morninge by ye rebell. 1668 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. xii. 225 This is the onely time for plashing of Quick-sets, and a very good season for the shrouding or lopping of Trees. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Diradiation, a spreading abroad of Beams of Light; also a plashing or setting of Vines in form of Sun-beams. 1793 G. Washington Let. 10 Feb. in Papers (2005) Presidential Ser. XII. 128 The plashing of the Cedars..would answer. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 571 What is termed plashing, that is, laying down a strong and healthy stem across an opening..in the hedge. 1904 19th Cent. Sept. 229 A wren..hiding out of sight behind the old level plashing upon the bank. 1928 R. S. Troup Silvicultural Syst. xii. 133 Plashing, which should be carried out in the season of rest, succeeds best in the case of species with strong powers of vegetative reproduction, such as lime, ash, and chestnut. 1997 C. Shields Larry's Party ii. 29 How certain plants can be intertwined with others to make a sturdier or more beautiful hedge; plashing, this artful mixing of varieties was called. Compounds General attributive, as †plashing-bill, †plashing-tool, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > hedging implements hedge-bill1497 hedging-bill1497 staff-hook?1523 plashing-bill?a1549 plashing-tool?a1549 hack-hook1771 rice knife1858 splasher1868 hedge trimmer1871 splashing-bill1899 ?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 126/2 Plasshing billes iiijxxij. 1813 in W. Marshall Rev. Rep. to Board Agric. from Southern & Peninsula Dept. (1817) 27 The plashing system is carried on to the greatest extent. 1890 Cent. Dict. Plashing-tool, a knife used in plashing hedges; a hedging knife. 1899 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 10 104 The hedge assumes under the plashing-bill the triangular shape. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plashingn.2 The action of plash v.2 (in various senses); the splashing of water; noisy plunging. 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 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > of water plashing1542 flushing1573 swashing1819 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 108 Ye drynke yt was left, they would cast vp on high, and by the clockyng, plashyng, or, soune that it gaue in the falle, thei would take a significacion whether their louers wer true to them or not. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 56 Swift the sea with plasshing rusht in. 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. B4v Himselfe al spotted And staind with plashing. 1829 W. Scott Waverley (new ed.) I. viii. 82 Everything around..would have been silent, but for the continued plashing of the fountain. 1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 315 The silence was broken only by the plashing of the oars. 1896 J. Curtin tr. H. Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis vii. 56 Louder and louder the sound of conversation was mingled with the plashing of the fountain. 1985 F. Raphael Heaven & Earth xi. 167 He grinned at the unsteady plashing of the drops as they drooled from the big trees. 2004 Newsday (Nexis) 27 May ii. b2 The plashing of the..fountain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plashingadj.adv. Chiefly literary and poetic. 1. That plashes like falling or splashing water; that strikes against water; (also) that generates or contains plashing water. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [adjective] > splashing plashy1582 plashing1813 splashy1835 splashing1897 sloshing1924 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > splashing or dashing flashy1582 swashing1620 plashing1813 splashing1837 spluttering1846 slushing1863 sousing1891 sloshing1924 1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 4 Hears..By fits the plashing rain-drop fall. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xiii. 191 The dazzled sea-fowl..Dropp'd from their crags on plashing wave. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 273 Light surges a plashing silvery laughter. 1898 Geogr. Jrnl. 11 346 In the evening the rain came down on us as we were walking on the land, large plashing drops. 1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty i. 13 The soft sound of the plashing lute. 1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear ii. ii. 142 The moonlight welled in with the sound of the plashing fountain. 1990 M. Dibdin Vendetta (1991) 12 It was really very difficult to believe that this beach, these rocks, those plashing wavelets were not part of a natural coastline, but a swimming pool five kilometres inland. 2009 L. Grossman Magicians i. 19 They passed a plashing fountain here, a somber, rain-ravaged white stone statue there. 2. That has been plashed upon; saturated by heavy rainfall, soaking wet. Also as adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > splashing or dashing > of ground on which heavy rain dashes plashing1826 1826 D. M. Moir in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 600 The bleak, bare fields—and the plashing grass—and the gloomy dull woods. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. ii. 27 He heard steps without upon the plashing soil. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 302 It was the plashing wet evening of a September day. 1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers v. 74 I waded through the mud to the shore. I was wearing my best clothes and they were all fouled and plashing. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood iv. 84 January, after the snows melted, had been mild and open, with the burns running full and red, and the hills one vast plashing bog. 1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's xiii. 110 Usually got our feet all plashing wet as well. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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 1881 Daily News 15 July 5/4 Some heavy raindrops fell plashingly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11495n.21542adj.adv.1813 |
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