ˈplashet Now dial.
Also 6 -ette.
[ad. OF. plassiet, plaschiet (Froiss.) marsh, dim. of plascq damp meadow; see plash n.1 and -et1.]
A little plash or marshy pool.
| 1575 Turberv. Falconrie 191 Some water plashet or pitte where wylde fowle lye, as Teales or suche lyke. 1578 Lyte Dodoens v. lxviii. 633 This herbe [arsesmart] groweth also in moyst marrishe places, and alongst the water plasshettes. 1880 Peard Mother Molly xv. 189 Let's run down here, there's a plashet at the bottom. |