▪ 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.
| 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 Th. Seasons 12 When..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 2049 Sike scoures were of blude..Þat foles ferd in þe flosches to þe fetelakis. |
2. attrib. (Cf. flush n.2 2 c.)
| 1847 Halliwell, Flosh-hole, a hole which receives the waste water from a mill-pond. 1875 in Sussex Gloss. |
▪ II. flosh, n.2
(flɒʃ)
(See quot.)
| 1874 Knight Dict. Mech. I. 889/2 Flosh (Metallurgy), a hopper-shaped box in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps. |