coss

• koss

From Hindi कोस (kos), from Sanskrit क्रोश (króśa, “cry, yell; measure of distance”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒs/

• Rhymes: -ɒs

coss (plural cosses or coss)

1. (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.

• rule of coss

• CSOs, OSCs, SCOs, Socs, socs

• cos

From Proto-Germanic *kussaz, whence also Old High German kus, Old Norse koss.

coss m

1. kiss