Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A disease in the feet of cattle. Also called founder.
  • noun A game mentioned in old statutes, played with pins and bowls, and supposed to be the equivalent of the modern ninepins.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.
  • noun obsolete The game of ninepins.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete The game of ninepins.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Dutch klossen to play at bowls.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word closh.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • An obsolete game with a ball or bowl, prohibited in many successive statutes in the 15th-16th centuries. From 16th c. Dutch lexicographers and descriptions, it appears that the bowl used in the game had to be driven by a spade- or chisel-shaped implement, the klos-beytel, through a hoop or ring, as in croquet.

    August 6, 2008