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Definition of Pashing
1. pash [v] - See also: pash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pashing
Literary usage of Pashing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1899)
"His sword was * short well-tempered Spanish blade, that carried a double edge,
and was alike suited to the purpose of striking or of pashing; ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... killing the Centaurs, pashing the lion, squeezing the dragon, dragging Cerberus
in chaynes, and lastly, on his high pyramides writing Nil ultra, Oh, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"posh' is used as an adverb, as ' The water came out, or down, posh.' Fashing, part.
adj. Gushing, as ' The water was pashing out of the broken spout. ..."
4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"... pashing it against a tree, I suddenly stept in. At the very close of the great
school which had opened with Kyd and James Shirley Lyly, ..."
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