Cess vs Coss - What's the difference?
cess | coss |
(British, Ireland) An assessed tax.
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(British, Ireland, informal) Luck
(obsolete) Bound; measure.
* Shakespeare
(British, Ireland) To levy a .
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(rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
(India) A measure of distance in India, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
*1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, pp. 410-11:
*:A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.
As nouns the difference between cess and coss
is that cess is (british|ireland) an assessed tax or cess can be (rail transport) the area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage while coss is (india) a measure of distance in india, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half english miles.As a verb cess
is (british|ireland) to levy a or cess can be (obsolete) to cease; to neglect.cess
English
(wikipedia cess)Alternative forms
* CessEtymology 1
Shortened form of assess, spelled by analogy with census and other Latinate words.Noun
(es)- The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess .
