Swash

Quick meaning: Swash is a noun meaning A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

Meaning

A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

More Meanings

1. A wet splashing sound.
2. A smooth stroke; a swish.
3. A swishing noise.
4. (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
5. A streak or patch.
6. (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
7. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

Example Sentences

Marks northwest junction of main and swash channels.

The swash is made up of the remnants of a breaking wave.

As a first warning the boiling liquid lifts the cover and washes over it with a noisy swash and clatter.

The first process occurs when swash mixes air and sand, trapping air bubbles just below the beach surface.

Word Forms

• swashes
• swashing
• swashed
• swasher
• swashest

Synonyms for swash

Depending on context, synonyms include bluster, tout, swagger, boast, vaunt, spatter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plash, gas, spatter, splatter, splosh, splash.

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