Definition of "coss" [coss]

• A measure of distance in India, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles. (noun)

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• "And between these two places, which are 120 coss distant, there is a pillar erected at every _coss_, and a fair house every ten coss, built by Akbar, on occasion of making a pilgrimage on foot from Agra to Agimere, saying his prayers at the end of every coss."
• "The 17th to _Sinan_, [146] fourteen coss, which is an ancient city, where they manufacture great store of cottons."
• "It could be fixed by making it a one-time up-front cost to coss the U.S. border legally."