ˈplash-mill Sc.
[f. plash v.2 + mill; in Du. plasmolen.]
A fulling-mill.
| 1868 G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 240 The plash-mill, or, more properly, wauk-mill—a word Robert derived from the resemblance of the mallets to two huge feet, and of their motion to walking—with the water plashing and squirting from the blows of their heels. |
Hence ˈplash-ˌmiller, a fuller.
| 1822 Dundee Advertiser 19 Dec. (Jam.), John Young, plash-miller at East Mill, was drowned in the river Esk. 1897 W. Lindsay in Bards of Angus & Mearns 282 Then I turned a plashmiller and wrought at that. |