[f. SPLASH v.1]
1. The action of the verb, in various senses.
1722–7. Boyer, Dict. Royal, Splashing, l’Action d’éclabousser.
1775. Ash, Splashing,… the act of daubing with wet and dirt.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. I. vii. There are marchings and wet splashings by steep paths.
1845. J. Coulter, Adv. in Pacific, ix. 114. A whole shoal of them [sharks] were moving about, I suppose attracted by my splashing in the water.
1886. W. J. Tucker, E. Europe, 14. Centring all was a fountain at play, intermingling its musical splashings with the many-toned song of birds.
2. techn. (See quots.)
1833. Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 542. Splashing is a mode of colouring walls, which may be performed … in water, in glutinous, or in oil, colours. Ibid. The object of splashing is either to imitate the lichens and weather stains of an old wall, or some particular kind of stone.
3. attrib. in splashing leather.
1809. Sporting Mag., XXXIV. 200. The pole came out of the splashing leather.
