¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plashes
1. plash [v] - See also: plash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plashes
Literary usage of Plashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"One autumn night when the wind was high, And the rain fell in heavy plashes, A
little boy sat by the kitchen fire, A popping corn in the ashes. ..."
2. Report and Transactions (1875)
"Bray (quoting Browne)— " Through the quagmires and red water plashes The boyes
run dabbling." iii. 20. Palmer—" PLASHET. Quagmire. ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"One autumn night when the wind was high, And the rain fell in heavy plashes, A
little boy sat by the kitchen fire, A popping corn in the ashes. ..."
4. Report and Transactions (1875)
"Bray (quoting Browne)— " Through the quagmires and red water plashes The boyes
run dabbling." iii. 20. Palmer—" PLASHET. Quagmire. ..."
Other Resources:
