1870–75; < Hindi kās < Sanskrit kāśa; compare Pali, Prakrit kāsa
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By plowing under the tough kans grass that has overrun millions of acres, the tractors will bring land back into cultivation.
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In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans.
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A quarter of a century ago, an Indian government agronomist named Daulat R. Sethi set out to lick kans, found a way by cutting its roots a foot or so beneath the surface.
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Between them, Saturn and kans choked some 10 million acres of hungry India's wheatlands.
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Ces établisemens consistent en maisons, comme les kans de Syrie.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard
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