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Definition of Plashing
1. n. The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
Definition of Plashing
1. Verb. (present participle of plash) ¹
2. Noun. A sound that plashes, as of water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plashing
1. plash [v] - See also: plash
Medical Definition of Plashing
1. 1. The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges. 2. The dashing or sprinkling of colouring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plashing
Literary usage of Plashing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... scream the dazzled sea-fowl gave, 320 The deer to distant covert drew, Dropped
from their crags on plashing wave. The black-cock deemed it day and crew. ..."
2. Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life by Joseph Tinker Buckingham (1852)
"One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays
to man is paid : The plashing waters mark his resting-place, ..."
3. The Practical Planter, Or, A Treatise on Forest Planting: Comprehending the by Walter Nicol (1803)
"plashing and Cutting of Old Hedges. ' 1st. plashing is an operation more or less
understood by every countryman, bred in unenclosed district. ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"... in a dark, stormy, plashing night, does not understand the half cheerlessness,
half satisfaction, with which the travellers, from the boat, ..."
5. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1878)
"I know of many that are ten years after plashing, fifteen years in all, ...
Ten or fifteen years ago this mode of plashing was introduced, and now all our ..."
6. Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6. And a by John Evelyn (1871)
"... by plashing the trees to them, is very pretty: for the rest there are too many
fir trees in the garden. 17 Nov. I tooke a house in Villiers Streete, ..."
7. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... scream the dazzled sea-fowl gave, 320 The deer to distant covert drew, Dropped
from their crags on plashing wave. The black-cock deemed it day and crew. ..."
8. Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life by Joseph Tinker Buckingham (1852)
"One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays
to man is paid : The plashing waters mark his resting-place, ..."
9. The Practical Planter, Or, A Treatise on Forest Planting: Comprehending the by Walter Nicol (1803)
"plashing and Cutting of Old Hedges. ' 1st. plashing is an operation more or less
understood by every countryman, bred in unenclosed district. ..."
10. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"... in a dark, stormy, plashing night, does not understand the half cheerlessness,
half satisfaction, with which the travellers, from the boat, ..."
11. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1878)
"I know of many that are ten years after plashing, fifteen years in all, ...
Ten or fifteen years ago this mode of plashing was introduced, and now all our ..."
12. Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6. And a by John Evelyn (1871)
"... by plashing the trees to them, is very pretty: for the rest there are too many
fir trees in the garden. 17 Nov. I tooke a house in Villiers Streete, ..."
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