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   Plash (?), n. [OD. plasch. See Plash, v.]
   1. A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. “These shallow plashes.” Barrow.
   
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   2. A dash of water; a splash.
   
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   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.
   
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   Far below him plashed the waters. Longfellow.
   
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   Plash, v. t.
   1. To splash, as water.
   
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   2. To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, “to plash a wall in imitation of granite”.
   
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   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.
   
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   Plash, n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
   
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