kish

¹ American  

[kish] / kɪʃ /

noun

Metallurgy.

1. a mixture of graphite and slag separated from and floating on the surface of molten pig iron or cast iron as it cools.

2. dross on the surface of molten lead.

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Kish ² American  

[kish] / kɪʃ /

noun

1. an ancient Sumerian and Akkadian city: its site is 8 miles (13 km) east of the site of Babylon in S Iraq.

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kish British  

/ kɪʃ /

noun

1. metallurgy graphite formed on the surface of molten iron that contains a large amount of carbon

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Etymology

Origin of kish

1805–15; < German Kies gravel, pyrites; akin to Old English cisel gravel

Example Sentences

Barkley is wary after years of black dust produced by steel manufacturing, known as kish, wafting in or raining down on her home from the Bethlehem Steel plant miles away.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2021

To see a traditional kish hut freshly built each year from palm fronds and arrowweed, head to the leafy patio of this museum dedicated to the area’s indigenous tribe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2017

A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish," and "caress" like "caresh."

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the gionts that lived about the Causeway there was wan, a young giont named Finn O'Goolighan, that was the biggest av his kind, an' none o' thim cud hide in a kish.

From Irish Wonders by McAnally, D. R. (David Russell)

"Vot you vant, a kish?" he replied, putting his offer in action as well as in language.

From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Cahan, Abraham