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keesh

keesh is the alternative form of kish.

Meaning of kish

Noun (1)

kish (plural kishes)

  1. A basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.
    • the whole kish emptied on [the turf-fire] at once... (c. 1)1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

Noun (2)

kish (uncountable)

  1. The graphite formed as a byproduct in iron smelting.

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Questions about keesh

What is keesh the alternative form of?
Keesh is the alternative form of kish.

Words near keesh in the dictionary

  1. Keesees
  2. Keeses
  3. Keeseville
  4. Keesey
  5. Keeseys
  6. keesh
  7. Keesha
  8. keeshka
  9. keeshkas
  10. keeshond
  11. keeshonden

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keesh (page history and authors); kish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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