Meaning of kish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
2. The graphite formed as a byproduct in iron smelting.
   uncountable
3. An ancient city of Sumer, located some 12 km east of Babylon, and 80 km south of Baghdad.
   historical
4. A resort island in Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan Province, off the southern coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf.

Examples

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

“Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.”

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