Blunt weapon

Usage examples of cosh.

Outside was young Sisyphus Cassius with a short, thick, ugly cosh in his hand.

Laura swung herself aside, and, as the cosh ascended, ready to be brought down across her skull, she turned and caught young Cassius a full-arm back-hander across the nose and mouth, and then flung herself upon him.

Dazed and bruised, nevertheless she recovered first, and, picking up the cosh which he had dropped, she hurled it over the tops of the nearest trees.

He dropped the cosh and dipped his hand beneath his jacket and it was my turn to hesitate.

The gun butt was considerably harder than the cosh and I regretfully decided I had fractured his skull.

She flushed, mortified at her own churlishness, and wanted to cosh him at the same time for making her so very much aware of it.

No, it was definitely a heavy rubber cosh or a sandbag, something of that sort.

He saw uncertainty then, as if she were arguing with herself whether or not to cosh him on the head if she could manage it.

She wished it would tip over and he would cosh himself on his damned head.

Even when he behaves in a manner that provokes one to the point of madness and wanting to cosh him, he is still wonderful.

I would rather cosh your thick head and heave you and all your damned women into the sea.

I am unable to jerk up one of the apple trees and cosh you with the trunk.

One sailor missed him, his cosh taking him on the shoulder instead of the head.

Half-turning, Pearce saw Charlie Taverner go down to a cosh, now lifted for a follow-up blow.

The man tugging the other end left himself wide open to half a dozen fists, forcing him to relinquish his cosh just to defend himself.