stoss

[ stohs; German shtohs ]

/ stoʊs; German ʃtoʊs /

adjective

Geology. noting or pertaining to the side, as of a hill or dale, that receives or has received the thrust of a glacier or other impulse.

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Origin of stoss

1875–80; < German: thrust, push

Words nearby stoss

storybook, storyteller, storytelling, storyville, storywriter, stoss, stot, stotin, stoting, stotinka, stotious

Definition for stoss (2 of 2)

Stoss

[ shtohs ]

/ ʃtoʊs /

noun

Veit

[fahyt] /faɪt/,c1440–1533, German sculptor and painter.

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Example sentences from the Web for stoss

Instead of either of these, Stoss, whom Bulke and Wilke had lowered by a rope, dropped down beside her.
Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann
Why couldn't you let me dance the first day under Webster and Forster, as Mr. Stoss and everybody else advised?
Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann
Bulke in the part he now played aroused as much admiration in Frederick and the artists as Stoss, if not more.
Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann
Stoss is the place, and there's a chapel built on the very spot.
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1887|Various

Stoss was being transported across the deck by his valet, who, as always, held him by his coat collar.
Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann

British Dictionary definitions for stoss (1 of 2)

stoss

/ (stɒs, German ʃtoːs) /

adjective

(of the side of a hill, crag, etc) facing the onward flow of a glacier or the direction in which a former glacier flowed

Word Origin for stoss

German, from stossen to thrust

British Dictionary definitions for stoss (2 of 2)

Stoss

/ (German ʃtoːs) /

noun

Viet (faɪət). ?1445–1533, German Gothic sculptor and woodcarver. His masterpiece is the high altar in the Church of St Mary, Cracow (1477–89)

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