cosh n also coish [phonetics unavailable]. DC ~ Nfld (1842); SEARY 112, 119; DINNEEN cos 'a leg, a foot'; P W JOYCE Irish Names of Places (1901) i, 527. Part of a river estuary cut off from the sea at low tide; place-name for such a lagoon; cp BARASWAY 2.
   1842 JUKES i, 42 Here a brook empties itself into the sea, having run for about three miles through a narrow pond, or 'cosh,' as my men called it. 1858 [LOWELL] i, 138 There's the summer w'y and the winter w'y, by Cub's Cove, and the Cosh, and so into the woods. M 69-20 There is a section of Bay Roberts harbour in the west called the Coish (kosh)... Within the coish there is a smaller coish formed in the extreme west end during low tide. This second coish is also formed by a causeway but this causeway is natural. 1973 WIDDOWSON 517 He was a gnarled man with a twisted face who lived beside the Coish, or river-head.

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