KISH

Kish

Kish was an ancient city of Sumer in Mesopotamia, considered to have been located near the modern Tell al-Uhaymir in the Babil Governorate of Iraq, some 12 km east of Babylon and 80 km south of Baghdad.

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kish

Noun

  1. a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
    • 1922: Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds. — James Joyce, Ulysses

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.


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