swash

IPA: swˈɑʃ

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.
(typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
A streak or patch.
(obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
(obsolete) A blustering noise.
(obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
(obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
(architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

(transitive, intransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
(transitive, intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
(transitive, intransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
(intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
(transitive, intransitive) To swipe.
(intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
To streak, to color in a swash.

Examples of "swash" in Sentences

I have no idea what a swash A is.
Two swash plate means are provided.
Decorated with ships and swash lettering.
The swash plate can shift vertically and tilt.
A swash buckling romance, the play was not well received.
In reality the axis moves the same way as the swash plate.
A swash plate type compressor for air conditioning of vehicles.
The hydraulic pump includes a swash plate tilted by a servomechanism.
A swash is a typographical flourish on a glyph, like an exaggerated serif.
A Swashplate Machine having a non rotatable swash plate mounted so that rotation of a shaft causes oscillation of the swash plate and one or more baffles mounted in slots in the swash plate dividing the swash plate into portions which oscillate to cause the volume of chambers to vary.