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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Plasch(e, n. [e.m.E. plash (1582), appar. f. the verb (see Plas(c)h,v.] A splash made when a body strikes or plunges into water. —1513 Doug. ix. xiii. 82.
Than at the last, al suddanly, with a plasch [v.r. plasche] … he … lap into the flude 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 62.
He did let him fall with a plasch in the mides of the burn
