Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A disease in the feet of cattle. Also called founder.
- n. A game mentioned in old statutes, played with pins and bowls, and supposed to be the equivalent of the modern ninepins.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete The game of ninepins.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.
- n. obsolete The game of ninepins.
Etymologies
- Dutch klossen to play at bowls. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Jush got in from Wakopa to-day, and I haven't had my closh off for week.”
“Initially resembling a tin of boot polish, when its lid was clasped, as a mini closh, free, the 'en surprise' was tense oscietra caviar pressed over sweet crabmeat.”
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she An obsolete game with a ball or bowl, prohibited in many successive statutes in the 15th-16th centuries. From 16th c. Dutch lexicographers and descriptions, it appears that the bowl used in the game had to be driven by a spade- or chisel-shaped implement, the klos-beytel, through a hoop or ring, as in croquet. Aug 6, 2008