plashet

English

Etymology

From plash +‎ -et.

Noun

plashet (plural plashets)

1. (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[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lapseth