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Cosh

noun
1.
A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people.  Synonyms: blackjack, sap.
verb
1.
Hit with a cosh, usually on the head.





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"Cosh" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bridgewater Treatises, analogous to the earlier works of Derham and Paley; the connection of science with revelation, in Cardinal Wiseman's Lectures delivered in Rome, 2d ed. 1842, (which are a little obsolete, but very masterly;) several works by Dr. M'Cosh, Divine Government,—Typical Forms, &c. in which the author takes a large view of the world, and of the province of revealed religion in the scheme of general truth, founded mainly on Butler; also a work of Dr. Buchanan, Modern Atheism, valuable for its literary materials as much as for ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... blaw, the heathen rage, The deil may start on the rampage; - The sick in bed, the thief in cage - What's a' to me? Cosh in my house, a sober ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson
... gar their thickening smeek[11] salute the lift. The gudeman, new come hame, is blithe to find, Whan he out owre the hallan[12] flings his een, That ilka turn is handled to his mind; That a' his housie looks sae cosh[13] an' clean; For cleanly house lo'es he, though e'er ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan


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