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plash

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plash [plash]
(hydrology)
A shallow, standing, usually short-lived pool or small pond resulting from a flood, heavy rain, or melting snow.
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Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in their sombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
From the vast, invisible ocean of moonlight overhead fell, here and there, a slender, broken stream that seemed to plash against the intercepting branches and trickle to earth, forming small white pools among the clumps of laurel.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
 
 
 
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