Poss vs Coss - What's the difference?
poss | coss |
(archaic) To mix with a vertical motion, especially when washing the hands.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To push; to dash; to throw.
* Piers Plowman
(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 an abbreviation poss
is alternative form of poss.|lang=en.As a verb poss
is to mix with a vertical motion, especially when washing the hands.As a noun coss is
a measure of distance in India, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.poss
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(es)- A cat possed them [the rats] about.