Usually means: Wave washes over beach sand.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. swash: Merriam-Webster
  2. swash, swash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swash, swash: Wordnik
  7. swash: Wiktionary
  8. swash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. swash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. swash: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. swash: Dictionary.com
  12. swash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Swash (appliance), Swash (brand), Swash (disambiguation), Swash (typography), Swash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Swash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. swash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. swash: Rhymezone
  17. Swash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. swash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. swash: FreeDictionary.org
  20. swash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. swash: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swash: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SWASH: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (swash)

noun:  The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
noun:  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.
noun:  A wet splashing sound.
noun:  A smooth stroke; a swish.
noun:  A swishing noise.
noun:  (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
noun:  A streak or patch.
noun:  (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
noun:  (obsolete) A blustering noise.
noun:  (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
noun:  (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
noun:  (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
verb:  (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
verb:  (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To swipe.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
verb:  To streak, to color in a swash.
adjective:  bold; dramatic.
adjective:  (typography) Having pronounced swashes.

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