doss
noun
a place to sleep, especially in a cheap lodging house.
dossed
Example Sentences
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He grew up in Clydebank, dossed around at school and left with no qualifications.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2021
We reached this spot just as night was falling, and "dossed" down.
From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
The advance was continued until it was quite dark, when the Battalion denuded the usual hayrick, and "dossed down" in the usual stubble field.
From "Contemptible", by "Casualty" by
I’ve been whalin’ up the Lachlan, and I’ve dossed on Cooper’s Creek, And once I rung Cudjingie shed, and blued it in a week.
From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
The Staff have made up their minds that we should be very much in the wrong box if we dossed down on the toe of the Peninsula.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton
