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Flash house , a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of
footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." Macaulay.
Flash
(Flash), n. Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.
Flash
(Flash), n. [OE. flasche, flaske; cf. OF. flache, F. flaque.]
1. A pool. [Prov. Eng.] Haliwell.
2. (Engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the
stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
Flash wheel (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water
is lifted from the lower to the higher level.
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