Meaning

(chiefly Northern England, North Midlands, countable) A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly Northern England, North Midlands, countable) A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
2. A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
3. (UK, dialectal) A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
4. (figurative, obsolete, rare) A splash of light on a surface.
5. To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
6. To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
7. To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
8. Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.

Example Sentences

And ſo than they of Bruges began to ſhote gonnes at thẽ. And than they of Gaũt diſcharged at ones thre .C. gonnes at one ſhotte: and ſo tourned a bout the plaſſhe of water and cauſed the ſon⸝ to be in the eyen of thẽ of Bruges⸝ the which greued them ſore: […]

Out of the vvound the redblood flovved freſh, / That vnderneath his feet ſoone made a purple pleſh.

Hereof Aeſope framed the fable of the tvvo Frogges that conſulted together in time of drovvth (vvhen many plaſhes that they had repayred to vvere dry) vvhat vvas to be done, and the one propounded to go dovvn into a deep VVell, becauſe it vvas like the vvater vvould not faile there, but the other anſvvered, yea but if it doe faile, hovv ſhal vve get vp againe? And the reaſon is, that humane actions are ſo vncertaine and ſubiect to perils, as that ſeemeth the beſt courſe vvhich hath moſt paſſages out of it.

[I]t is plain that we should much more dislike, abominate, and shun spiritual evils than temporal; […] that we should run willingly into these shallow plashes of present inconvenience, rather than plunge ourselves into those unfathomable depths of eternal misery.

Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash?

[…] Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, / The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower […]

One ſhip that Lycius did ſhrowd with faithful Orontes / In ſight of captayne was ſwaſht with a royſterus heapefloud. / Downe the pilot tumbleth with plaſh round ſummoned headlong, / Thriſe the grauel thumping in whirlpoole plunged, is hooule'd: […]

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