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▪ I. flosh, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|flɒʃ|
Also 3–4 flosche.
[See flash n.1; cf. also flush n.2]
1. A pool; sometimes, a stagnant pool overgrown with reeds, etc.; a swamp.
a1300E.E. Psalter lxxxvii[i]. 5 [4], I am wened, in ilka land To þas þat ere in flosche falland. 1789D. Davidson Th. Seasons 12 When..powheads spartle in the oosy flosh. 1875Lanc. Gloss., Flosh, water, or a watery place.
b. transf. A pool (of blood).
a1400–50Alexander 2049 Sike scoures were of blude..Þat foles ferd in þe flosches to þe fetelakis.
2. attrib. (Cf. flush n.2 2 c.)
1847Halliwell, Flosh-hole, a hole which receives the waste water from a mill-pond. 1875in Sussex Gloss.
▪ II. flosh, n.2|flɒʃ|
(See quot.)
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 889/2 Flosh (Metallurgy), a hopper-shaped box in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps. |