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Definition of Plashings
1. plashing [n] - See also: plashing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plashings
Literary usage of Plashings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Landlord and Tenant: With All the Requisite Forms, Including the by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"... trimmings of timber trees which have been heretofore usually lopped or trimmed,
and the plashings of the quick hedges belonging to the said premises, ..."
2. Modern Precedents in Conveyancing: With Variations Adapting Them to by Charles Barton (1821)
"... and trimmings of timber trees which have been heretofore usually lopped or
trimmed, and the plashings of the quick hedges belonging to the said premises ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"The phenomenon was doubtless attributable to the hot air generated in the
crowded 'tween-decks. The cries and plashings that had startled Jonathan were soon ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... with plashings, splashings, and crashings. "There are human lives," says Romain
Rolland, "that are placid lakes; others are great, open skies wherein ..."
5. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"... hem and selvage may extend To where the roars and plashings of the flames Of
earth-invisible suns swell noisily, And onwards into ghastly gulfs of sky, ..."
6. The Law of Landlord and Tenant: With All the Requisite Forms, Including the by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"... trimmings of timber trees which have been heretofore usually lopped or trimmed,
and the plashings of the quick hedges belonging to the said premises, ..."
7. Modern Precedents in Conveyancing: With Variations Adapting Them to by Charles Barton (1821)
"... and trimmings of timber trees which have been heretofore usually lopped or
trimmed, and the plashings of the quick hedges belonging to the said premises ..."
8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"The phenomenon was doubtless attributable to the hot air generated in the
crowded 'tween-decks. The cries and plashings that had startled Jonathan were soon ..."
9. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... with plashings, splashings, and crashings. "There are human lives," says Romain
Rolland, "that are placid lakes; others are great, open skies wherein ..."
10. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"... hem and selvage may extend To where the roars and plashings of the flames Of
earth-invisible suns swell noisily, And onwards into ghastly gulfs of sky, ..."
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