Definition of "swashing" []

• Present participle of swash. (verb)
• Swaggering; hectoring. (adjective)
• Resounding; crushing (adjective)

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• "For two or three mornings accordingly I had seen nothing of Nero; but the third or fourth morning, on/[Page 92]/striking out to swim a few yards, I heard gradually a kind of swashing behind me; looking back, it was Nero out on voluntary humble partnership - ready to swim with me to Edinburgh or to the world's end if I liked!"
• "They stood at the edges of circular holes in the ice, and after 'swashing' the linen a short time in the water, wrung it with their purple hands."
• "At times no sounds were heard save the whisperings of the breeze, as it brushed against the spread canvas, or a slight "swashing" in the water as it was broken by the rough timbers of the craft."