The swash of waves on the beach.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a swash letter.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : the thunderous swash of the waves.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : Waves were swashing against the piers.    From Dictionary.com. 

The water that rushes up the beach is called the swash while any water returning down to the sea is the backwash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The feeble "swash" that answered the shake was not reassuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thankful's Inheritance] Reference

Students love, and engage with, the swash-buckling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A blog before its time] Reference

Just a quick swishy-swash of my trusty make-up brush over this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

The movie was full of lots of swash with plenty of buckle to taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

Already the swash from the steam launch was telling on Jerry's lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

In consequence of a bar, or 'swash,' which stretches inside Ocracoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

I listened to demons in the swash and run of the big sea on the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

(I had to put some swash and buckle in this thing and it just came out).    From Wordnik.com.  [Being a COMPLETE Slacker...] Reference

That kind of 'Hill Street Blues' swash period that typography went through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typeface designers mix art, engineering] Reference

His swash buckling one-handed backhand is considered one of the sport's best.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007] Reference

If a man is going to play the swashbuckler, I like to see him able to swash his buckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

You heard no click of machinery or swash of water against the sides: we were gliding on through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference

Then it gradually went ahead, until Jerry was caught in the swash of the tiny waves it produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Despite the lazy swash of the swells on the beach below the sunny afternoon was heavy with silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

The hurricane had come by night, and with one fell swash had made an irretrievable sop of everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

It was for no lucre of gain I took you and your swash-buckler, your Don Diego yonder, under my poor roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

But it was too late to question the old man's intentions: we were already in the back swash of the breakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

When she pulled the underwear out of the swash he mewed for her to return it to him for further destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Warning]

Otherwise she would hardly have made a confidant of a fellow who combined swash-buckling with highway robbery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Her voice arose sweetly above the swash of the waves, reciting Scripture, pouring forth prayer, and singing Psalms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

Like a swash-buckling captain of cinema, he's seized the helm of Disney's troubled ship and steered it through choppy seas.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Eisner Saved Disney--And Himself] Reference

He pointed out safety wires on parts of the swash plate, the push-pull tubes, the stabilizer bars, and the control dampers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

I suppose both Terry Wogan and Russell Brand use arcane words in their normal discourse, but probably Russell has more swash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell Brand edgy enough for Radio 2] Reference

And since I've started in on the whole swash buckling thing with the Vampire stuff - I'm adding some swash and buckle to this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Functionality] Reference

At that critical moment overboard went the bundle, the two men with the lantern rushing out and dragging it clear of the swash.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

After all, if the Duke can Save the Day, how hard is it to buckle some swash, kill some goblins and get home in time for dinner?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: Quayles Guide to Adventure: Standard Hero Behavior] Reference

They evidently thought that British soldiers had gone never to return, and they swaggered about in swash-buckler fashion, as only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Her hair was standing out in a great curly swash round her head, and the early-morning sun caught in it like flames in a thornbush.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]

In private life one of the most amiable of men, and distinguished for courtesy and kindness, he was a swash-buckler in controversy.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference

When they awoke, next morning, the engines were at work again, and their heavy thud, thud, was mingled with the swash of water, as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Aboard A Story for Girls] Reference

“Lots of hot water and lather and a new razor blade and nobody in the bathroom and the door locked and swash, swash with the brush.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Hawker]

The engine of the motor-boat cut out just then, and there was complete silence except for the swish-swash-swish of the waves on the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Have Plenty Of Fun]

Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability to bend everyone to your will.    From Wordnik.com.  [sarus Diary Entry] Reference