closh
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Dutch klossen (“to play at bowls”).
Noun
editclosh (uncountable)
- (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
editCompare French clocher (“to limp”).
Noun
editclosh (uncountable)
- 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
edit- “closh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.