1. On a level or flush with the surface of the water, so that it just washes over.
1833. Penny Cycl., I. 507/1. An anchor is … ‘a-wash,’ when the stock is hove up to the surface of the water.
1868. W. Collins, Moonst., I. xix. (1876), 144. The South spit was just awash with the flowing tide.
2. Washing about, at the mercy of the waves.
1870. Reade, Put Yourself, III. 274. The rising water set everything awash.
1876. Morris, Sigurd, IV. 351. Their unmanned oars awash In the sandy waves of the shallows.
