Obs. exc. dial. Also 3–4 flosche. [See FLASH sb.1; cf. also FLUSH sb.2]
1. A pool; sometimes, a stagnant pool overgrown with reeds, etc.; a swamp.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter, lxxxvii[i]. 5 [4].
| I am wened, in ilka land, | |
| To þas þat ere in flosche falland. |
1789. D. Davidson, Seasons, 12.
| When, ducks a paddock-hunting scour the bog, | |
| And, powheads spartle in the oosy flosh. |
1875. Lanc. Gloss., Flosh, water, or a watery place.
b. transf. A pool (of blood).
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2048.
| Sike scoures were of blude · of schondirhed bernes, | |
| Þat foles ferd in þe flosches · to þe fetelakis. |
2. attrib. (Cf. FLUSH sb.2 2 c.)
1847. Halliwell, Flosh-hole, a hole which receives the waste water from a mill-pond.
1875. in Parish, Sussex Gloss.
