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cosses

cosses is the plural of coss.

Meaning of coss

Noun

coss (plural cosses or coss)

  1. (British, India, South-Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
    • […] the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) […]1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya...

Questions about cosses

What is cosses the plural of?
Cosses is the plural of coss.

Words near cosses in the dictionary

  1. Cossaean
  2. Cossaeans
  3. Cossaei
  4. cossaes
  5. Cossall
  6. cosses
  7. cosset
  8. cosseted
  9. cosseter
  10. cosseters
  11. cosseting

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