poss
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
poss
- Alternative form of poss.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
poss (third-person singular simple present posses, present participle possing, simple past and past participle possed)
- (archaic) To mix with a vertical motion, especially when agitating laundry in a tub.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) To push; to dash; to throw.
- Piers Plowman
- A cat […] possed them [the rats] about.
- Piers Plowman