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stoss

(stŏs, stôs, shtōs)

adj.

Facing the direction from which a glacier moves. Used of a rock or slope in its path.

[From German Stoss-, push, blow (as in Stossseite, stoss side), from stossen, to push, from Middle High German stōzen, from Old High German stōzan.]

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stoss

(stɒs; German ʃtoːs)

adj

(Physical Geography) (of the side of a hill, crag, etc) facing the onward flow of a glacier or the direction in which a former glacier flowed

[German, from stossen to thrust]

Stoss

(German ʃtoːs)

(Biography) Viet (ˈfaɪət). ?1445–1533, German Gothic sculptor and woodcarver. His masterpiece is the high altar in the Church of St Mary, Cracow (1477–89)

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stoss

(stōs; Ger. shtōs),
adj.

receiving or having received the thrust of a glacier or other impulse.

[1875–80; < German: thrust, push]

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