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Kish

//kɪʃ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An ancient city of Sumer, located some 12 km east of Babylon, and 80 km south of Baghdad. historical
  2. 2
    A resort island in Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan Province, off the southern coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf.
Noun
  1. 1
    a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf

    "the whole kish emptied on [the turf-fire] at once... (c. 1)"

  2. 2
    The graphite formed as a byproduct in iron smelting. uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta.

Etymology 2

Compare German Kies (“gravel, pyrites”).

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