flashet n also flash OED flash sb¹ 1 'pool, marshy place' obs exc local (1440-1870); EDD flash sb¹ 1 'pool ... marshy pond.' A small pond in a marshy area.
   [c1900] 1978 RLS 8, p. 23 ~ Small pond of water usually such as occur in bogs or marshes. 1912 CABOT 5 Its lakes are Labrador's glory... Nowhere are such lakes,—from the tiny 'flashets' of the Newfoundlanders, their mission only to reflect the sky, to great Michikamau and Mistassini, with their far water horizons. 1937 DEVINE 22 ~ a small pond or puddle, especially in a marsh. P 113-56 A flash does not usually have a brook running in or out. 'Watch the flashes for black ducks.' P 184-67 'He's in on the flashet skating.' In this case it was frozen.

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