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English
Etymology
From plash + -et.
Noun
plashet (plural plashets)
- (archaic) A small pond or pool, a puddle.
1839, Mary Palmer, A Devonshire dialogue (by mrs. Palmer). Ed. by mrs. Gwatkin, page 4:Vetch'd a vege to thicka plashet.
1880, Frances Mary Peard, Mother Molly, page 189:"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.
References
- “plashet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1903), “PLASHET”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume IV (M–Q), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
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