Definition of "plash"

Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

Hereof Aesop framed the Fable of the two Frogs that consulted together in time of drowth (when many plashes that they had repayred to were dry) what was to be done.

1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Coulers of Good and Evill, section 4

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

1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXII

These shallow plashes.

a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Consideration of our Latter End”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831

Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash, and as we listened we watched it in silence.

1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers

[...] down burst torrents of thick rain and muddied us to the skin. The valley began to run in plashes of water, and Dakhil-Allah urged us across it quickly. [...]

1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 206

plashing among bedded pebbles

1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], page 1

Far below him plashed the waters, / Plashed and washed the dreamy waters; […]

1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Pau-Puk-Keewis”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 222

[…] heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her […]

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter IX, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […]

plash'd hedges

1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […]