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n. (context rare English) (non-gloss definition: A measure used in the Isle of Man, similar to) a peck.
Wikipedia
The name Kishon may refer to:
- Kishon River , a river in northern Israel
- Kishon Port , a port in the Haifa Bay area of Haifa, Israel near Haifa Airport; located at the mouth of the Kishon River. Part of the Port of Haifa.
- Ephraim Kishon, (1924 – 2005) an Israeli satirist
- Sara Kishon (1931 – 2002), Israeli pianist, art collector, and the wife of Ephraim Kishon
- Kishon Khan (born 1970), Bangladeshi-born British jazz pianist
- 21010 Kishon (1988 PL2), a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1988
Usage examples of "kishon".
The vale of Kishon and the region of Megiddo were inevitable battle fields.
We were all mighty pleased to be on the move again, partly because Haifa was not a deliriously exciting place to be in, but chiefly because the neighbourhood of the famous river Kishon was singularly uninviting, and when the rains came, would be a veritable plague-spot of malaria and blackwater fever.
Tsipporah said, sitting back from the card table set in the repair bay of a small garage off Chaim Weizmann Street, east of the now-destroyed antiquities authority office toward Kishon Harbor.
The rash and insolent valor of the master of the order of Knights Templar, which had before exposed the Christians to a fatal defeat at the brook Kishon, forced the feeble king to annul the determination of a council of war, and advance to a camp in an enclosed valley among the mountains, near Hittin, without water.