dial. [f. as prec.] trans. To dash a quantity of liquid; to dash (a thing) broadly with liquid. intr. To plash, to splash heavily in, work in, water.
1788. Picken, To Cowslip, Poems 91 (Jam.). Whan … blashan rains, or cranreughs fa’.
1861. Fam. Herald, 16 Feb., 672. ‘How much water does your mistress … put in our … milk?’ ‘I’m sure,’ replied the rogue, ‘I don’t know … she just blashes it in.’
1864. Atkinson, Whitby Gloss., Blash, to splash with water. Also in sense of going or having gone to sea. ‘What he has got, he has blash’d for,’ as property obtained by a seafaring life.
