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A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

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  1. v. A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
  2. v. A dash of water; a splash.
  3. v. i. To dabble in water; to splash.
  4. v. t. To splash, as water.
  5. v. t. To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.
  6. v. t. To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge.
  7. n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
  8. n. the sound like water splashing
  9. v. interlace the shoots of
  10. v. dash a liquid upon or against
  11. 1. A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. "These shallow plashes." Barrow. 2. A dash of water; a splash. To dabble in water; to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles." Keats. Far below him plashed the waters. Longfellow. 1. To splash, as water. 2. To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite. To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge. Evelyn. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
  12. To dabble in water; to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles."Keats.Far below him plashed the waters. Longfellow.