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plashet en · NOUN

Etymology

From plash + -et.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A small pond or pool, a puddle.
   • "Let's run down here, there's a plashet at the bottom." We were in the wildest spirit , nothing came amiss to us, and the black bread I had brought, with a bottle of milk, seemed delicious. 1880, Frances Mary Peard, Mother Molly, page 189:
   • Vetch'd a vege to thicka plashet. 1839, Mary Palmer, A Devonshire dialogue (by mrs. Palmer). Ed. by mrs. Gwatkin, page 4:

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