cosh

plural coshes

1. A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.

   Two coshes swung in the moonlight. The guards crumpled.

   2001, Anthony Horowitz, “Night Raid”, in Point Blanc, Walker Books, page 152

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   The caissier has a cosh and a gun to protect him, and to heave over the barrier and steal some notes and then vault back and get out of the casino through the passages and doors would be impossible.

   1953, Ian Fleming, “The Secret Agent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 8

2. A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.
3. UKdatedslangeducationThe cane.

   There is no need here to digress on the advantages or otherwise of using a 'cosh' in schools […]

   1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie, The lore and language of schoolchildren, page 374

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   Often, he walked around the room with the cosh in his hand, taking slashes at legs that happened to stray sideways […]

   2019, John Loveday, The Boy from Rod Alley, page 115

present singular third person coshes · participle present coshing · participle past coshed · past coshed

1. transitiveTo strike with a weapon of this kind.

comparative more cosh · superlative most cosh

1. Scotlandcozy; snug

1. uncountablehyperbolic cosine