coshes

I really thought, like knuckledusters, coshes are illegal in Briton.

Inside the anti-kettling HQ 2011

In the US, such drugs became popular among families who wanted their lively (non-ADHD) boys to do better in class, while in the UK they were tagged chemical coshes.

Hyperactive children may suffer from genetic disorder, says study Sarah Boseley 2010

I remember not so many years ago in this very country people openly telling me they were going to a pub to go 'gay bashing'...and by that I mean attacking them with coshes and chains.

In praise of … David Kato | Editorial 2011

If you pretend that it is merely an aberration which will presently pass off of its own accord, you are dreaming a dream from which you will awake when somebody coshes you with a rubber truncheon.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

When she was out of sight Benny saw the four black men take out rubber coshes.

Maura's Game Cole, Martina 2002

Two men in Balaclava helmets at front and rear of the compartment stood on guard, coshes in hand.

At Bertram's Hotel Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1965

And then, say, on that particular evening you come home because you've forgotten something and there's this bad lot of a boy in the house, caught in the act, and he turns round and coshes you. '

A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962

If you pretend that it is merely an aberration which will presently pass off of its own accord, you are dreaming a dream from which you will awake when somebody coshes you with a rubber truncheon.

The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

In the absence of police, there are lots of unofficial checkpoints set up at street corners with men wielding coshes and sticks see image below.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

In the absence of police, there are lots of unofficial checkpoints set up at street corners with men wielding coshes and sticks see image below.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011