dial. [f. SPLASH v.2] Pleaching. Also splashing-bill, a pleaching-bill.

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1869.  Blackmore, Lorna D., xxxviii. The ramparts of ash, which is made by what we call ‘splashing.’

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1899.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., March, 104. The work on well-established hedges is most quickly performed by a long-handled splashing-bill.

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