What is the meaning of Swash?

The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.

A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

A wet splashing sound.

A smooth stroke; a swish.

A swishing noise.

A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.

A streak or patch.

Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

A blustering noise.

swaggering behaviour.

A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).

To dash or flow noisily; to splash.

To swirl through liquid; to swish.

To wade forcefully through liquid.

To swipe.

To fall violently or noisily.

To streak, to color in a swash.

bold; dramatic.

Having pronounced swashes.

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