dial. [f. SPLASH v.2] Pleaching. Also splashing-bill, a pleaching-bill.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., xxxviii. The ramparts of ash, which is made by what we call splashing.
1899. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., March, 104. The work on well-established hedges is most quickly performed by a long-handled splashing-bill.