poss

1) To thrust or push violently, especially with the feet.

1758 Shalloons to bee scowred with hogs dung and lant hot in a tub and att after take them to the river and pos them weel with your feets so there swill them clean, Wakefield. Still a dialect word in regular use, more familiar in the wash-day ‘posser’.

places Wakefield
dates 1758

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