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Noun(1) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people(2) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle(3) used for hitting people
Verb(1) hit with a cosh, usually on the head(2) hit with a cosh(3) usually on the head

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(1) A jury convicted him in May of illegally possessing the gas, a lock knife and a cosh at the airport.(2) The cosh and the teargas, he said, were left over from his evening job as a bouncer, and he had just forgotten to unpack them before travelling.(3) It was claimed in court that he probably struck the first blow with an extended cosh .(4) But there is no doubt that my client used the cosh and probably struck Mr Bourne about the head.(5) With respect, the use of a knife as opposed to the use of a cosh in their minds is clearly something quite different.(6) A conspiratorial hush proceeds to cosh the masses, precipitating a muffled ripple of applause as the Mayor and his entourage take to the stand.(7) They threatened to cosh him if he refused to hand over the phone.(8) the defendants deny having a self-loading pistol and a telescopic cosh(9) He said he had been threatened with guns, knives and hammers and attacked with a cosh in the past.(10) Masked men armed with a machete and cosh burst into a busy town centre amusement arcade and forced terrified staff to open the safe and hand over a large amount of cash.(11) The columnist coshed me on the back of the head and, while I was out, dumped me in the uncharted territory of his foreign policy mistakes.(12) Weapons wanted in the amnesty include those with a blade or sharp point, such as knives and machetes, CS gas canisters, coshes and knuckle dusters.(13) Detectives in Accrington today renewed their appeal for information about a robbery in which a shopkeeper was believed to be coshed with a gun.(14) Fourteen years after this was made, the idea of robberies from trains, and indeed coshing drivers - coolly omitted from the professor's sophistical account of what harm his thieves have really done - lost a smidgen of its innocence.(15) Under the settee in the lounge officers also found a machete and two wooden coshes .(16) Officers acting on a tip-off swooped on a gang of robbers, believed to be armed with knives and coshes , just after they had held up a security van.