Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SWASH
SWASH, n.2
- A blustering noise; a vaporing. [Not in use or vulgar.]
- Impulse of water flowing with violence. In the southern states of America, swash or swosh is a name given to a narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between that and the shore. Many such are found on the shores of the Carolinas.
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