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plash

1  [plash]
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–noun
1. a gentle splash.
2. a pool or puddle.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. to splash gently.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME plasch pool, puddle, OE plæsc; c. D, LG plas, prob. of imit. orig.

Related forms:
plash⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

plash

2  [plash]
–verb (used with object)
pleach.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < MF plaissier, deriv. of plais hedge < VL *plaxum < ?

Related forms:
plasher, noun
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plash   (plāsh)   
n.  
  1. A light splash.
  2. The sound of a light splash.
v.   plashed, plash·ing, plash·es

v.   tr.
To spatter (liquid) about; splash.
v.   intr.
To cause a light splash.

[Possibly from Middle English plashe, pool of water, from Old English plæsc.]
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Plash

Plash\, n. [OD. plasch. See Plash, v.]

1. A small pool of standing water; a puddle. --Bacon. "These shallow plashes." --Barrow.

2. A dash of water; a splash.

Plash

Plash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Plashing.] [Cf. D. plassen, G. platschen. Cf. Splash.] To dabble in water; to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles." --Keats.

Far below him plashed the waters. --Longfellow.

Plash

Plash\, v. t. 1. To splash, as water.

2. To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.

Plash

Plash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Plashing.] [OF. plaissier, plessier, to bend. Cf. Pleach.] To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge. --Evelyn.

Plash

Plash\, n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
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plash 
"small puddle, wet ground," O.E. plæsc "pool of water, puddle," probably onomatopoeic (cf. Du. plassen, Ger. platschen). Meaning "noise made by splashing" is first recorded 1513.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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