kishn.1
/kɪʃ/, U.S. /kɪʃ/, Irish English /kɪʃ/ 1. A large wickerwork basket, used in Ireland chiefly for carrying turf; sometimes mounted on a car.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > for carrying > carried on the back > specific for peat
peat-creel1579
kish1780
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 61 A kish of turf burns 2 barrels of lime.
1802 R. L. Edgeworth & M. Edgeworth Ess. Irish Bulls xii. 182 An irish boy..saw a train of his companions leading their cars loaded with kishes of turf.
1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland II. 125 (note) He pointed to the potatoe Kish which was placed upon the table.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xix. 166 The cars were in great variety..some bore kishes in which a woman and some small children might be seen.
2. Used, like gabions, in building the piers of bridges, etc. (see quot.). Hence kish-work n.
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1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 59 Kesh-work, that is, a kind of large Baskets, made of the Boughs and Branches of Trees, about the size of four or five Feet Square; these they sink in rows, by throwing stones..into them till they ground, and then filling them up.
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 60 They..so begin to build their Piers, banking the Kishes all round with other Stones and hard Stuff thrown in.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
kishn.2
/kɪʃ/ A form of impure graphite, which separates from certain kinds of iron in the process of smelting, floating on the top in the form of scales. Also, a dross on the surface of melted lead.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [noun] > native carbon
black lead?a1560
wad1614
killow1666
wad-lead1780
plumbago1784
graphite1796
plumbagine1800
kish1812
lead1816
pot lead1876
cliftonite1887
shungite1892
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 391 There is a substance formed in iron foundries called kish, of a brilliant appearance, usually in thin scales, analogous to plates of polished steel. It consists chiefly of carbonaceous matter united to iron.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 150 Kish, the blast-furnacemen's name for the graphite-segregations seen in pig-iron and in the cinder of a furnace making a very gray iron.
Derivatives
ˈkishy adj. (see quot.).
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > native elements and alloys > [adjective] > native carbon
plumbaginous1796
kishy1825
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 330 The appearance of this substance, called by the workmen kish,..is so common an attendant on the production of the most highly carbonized iron, that the workmen have applied the term kishy to that peculiar sort of iron.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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