closh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɒʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ
• Homophone: cloche

Etymology 1

From Dutch klossen (“to play at bowls”).

Noun

closh (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The game of ninepins.
   • 1627, Thomas Gataker, Of the Nature and Use of Lots:

     forbidding the same persons to play at tables, tennis, closh, dice

Etymology 2

Compare French clocher (“to limp”).

Noun

closh (uncountable)

1. A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis; founder.
   • 1633, Leonard Mascall, he Gouernment of Cattell:

     To heale the closh, or founder in the feet of Cattell

References

• “closh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Losch, lochs