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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of swash.

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Examples

  • The starboard rail buried under the sea as the schooner heeled to the blow, and, as she righted with a violent lurch, the water swashed across the deck to the knees of the sailors about the boat and spouted out of the port scuppers.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • I lost my job when congress and the president decided that companies should no longer buy business jets, and portrayed them as luxurious airlines, when they are actually swashed tin cans, which barely fit the people trying to fly.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Was I Wrong, Or Did Something Change? 2009

  • So, while Sporty Hubby swish-swashed his way down the mountain, I carefully snowplowed and slid most of the day.

    Parking Lot Humiliation Anne-Marie 2008

  • Man, I never dreamed the power those things had, they just swashed us across the ground like we were skating, on our butts, that is.

    Jay's Journal Dr. Beatrice Sparks 2010

  • Well, we swashed and we buckled back and forth on the deck!

    August Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour Day 2 2007

  • They were full of stories with daring larger than life heroes who swashed their buckles and buckled their swashes in fine style.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Steve 2009

  • Well, we swashed and we buckled back and forth on the deck!

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • The wind and the waves swashed, keened, percussed; the decks plunged and rolled.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • The wind and the waves swashed, keened, percussed; the decks plunged and rolled.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • Your buckle was swashed long ago and you have never been so sure of anything as your ability to bend everyone to your will.

    Yo Ho, crack your back in two. steely_glint 2007

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