koch

plural koches

1. A wooden sailing ship of Russian design for use in the Arctic.

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   The remnants of the shipwrecked koch left by Russian sailors on the Faddey Islands and their hut (winter quarters) on the shore of Simsa Bay, found by hydrographers in 1940, expanded the understanding of historians of the real practical capabilities of Russian polar explorers-sailors of the seventeenth century.

   2023 June 28, Elena A. Okladnikova, “The Excavations of Aleksei P. Okladnikov on the Faddey Islands in Simsa Bay (August 1945)”, in Richard Bland, transl., Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, volume 22, number 2, Berghahn Journals, →DOI, page 86

1. A language of Meghalaya (India), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Bihar, and Bangladesh.

plural Kochs

1. A surname from German.

   It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them. That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently.

   2019 August 23, Chris Cillizza, “How the Koch brothers fundamentally changed modern politics”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2022