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Such, sir, are you by general confession; such are the things achieved by you, the greatest and most glorious of our countrymen, the director of our public councils, the leader of unconquered armies, the father of your country; for by that title doss every good man hail you with sincere and voluntary praise Next year, having defended all that wanted defence, he found leisure to defend himself.

—Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley

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noun Sleep; rest.
noun A crude or makeshift bed.
intransitive verb To go to bed, especially in a crude or makeshift bed; sleep.

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If I left the back door of the hall unlocked, tramps might use that room as a doss-down or boys could get in and do damage. — The Death-Cap Dancers - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 59: 1981
Most stations gave them their tucker and a doss-down for the night in exchange for a job of work, but not Flossie. — Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
How the baron got into the doss-house and why he is a baron is also not sufficiently clear Andreyev's “Thought” is something pretentious, difficult to understand, and apparently no good, but it is worked out with talent. — Letters of Anton Chekhov
I will not have this auction interrupted by any old doss-house lounger!' — The Vatican Rip-Jonathan Gash- Lovejoy 05
So I was a sir and Tinker was a doss-house lounger. — The Vatican Rip-Jonathan Gash- Lovejoy 05