The swash of waves on the beach. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : Waves were swashing against the piers. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the thunderous swash of the waves. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a swash letter. 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
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
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]
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]
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
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]
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