swash

The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.

It is not the direct battering that breaks the dyke, but overtopping, when the flow of water sweeps away the inland face, so swash length is a vital thing to accommodate, and to do that you must make an estimate of the highest possible tides.

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

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.

According to what you say about the shells, there ought to be a thousand flamingos feeding in this very swash at this instant.

Marks northwest junction of main and swash channels.

A wet splashing sound.

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

The sound of the furious "swash, swash,” as it struck, carried even to the depths of the holds where the engines churned madly to keep the prow in the teeth of the waves.

A smooth stroke; a swish.

Dip in and out quickly and with a swash three or four times. This serves to wash off the dust that has settled while the fruit is on the trays.

Then he cut down a long forked stick, the anti-ophidian of the poor, and probing with the stick in one hand, began to clean the yuca grove with the machete in the other, displaying the lazy elegance of an athlete – swash, swash, swash – free and easy but looking carefully at each detail.

A swishing noise.

The swash of the whirling blades reminds me vaguely of the noise conifers make.

Nothing but more swash and click, until l heard... “Eurah!” Crunching! There it was: a definite crunching.

To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).

He swashed out of the room, and presently we heard his angry voice berating his bearer.

He swashed about (cautioned though he was to maintain silence concerning his past theatrical relationships) in such a self-confident manner that he was like to convince every one of his identity by mere matter of circumstantial evidence.

To dash or flow noisily; to splash.

How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!

There was an inch or two of water on the floor in our room that continually swashed, swashed from side to side, with the rolling of the ship.

To swirl through liquid; to swish.

The parts are swashed in the solution until they are clean and are then rinsed in cold running water.

I followed one set to the laundrey, where for two hours the samples were swashed and soaked, and swashed again, with strong laundry soap.

To wade forcefully through liquid.

Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and began another climb; but this time he was not alone, and he had not to make his path.

While Col-d'Argent sank collapsed upon the Bridge, and the horse charged over him, and again charged, and beat and were beaten three several times, Anhalt-Dessau, impatient of such fiddling hither and thither, swashed into the stream itself with his Prussian Foot; swashed through it, waist-deep or breast-deep, and might have settled the matter had not his cartridges got wetted.

To swipe.

'[…] ye ill-farren, useless bowdikite!' said she, as she swashed the dishclout about my lugs,

It was a fire sword That I swashed about the world, O how I swashed The great fire sword that lit the sky

bold; dramatic.

Very swash in camelly cashmere belted over shirt-tunic and pants in a neat, tiny print of cinnamon–navy–wine–beige crêpe de Chine;

When Sir Noel Coward played King Magnus to the Orinthia of Miss Margaret Leighton, the stage was swash with beige draperies,

Having pronounced swashes.

The French compositor took the greek capitals for latin ones and sought out his swashest type to set the handwritten letters,

The failing to avoid at all costs when using this type of capital is that of making them too swash.