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stoss

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stoss  (sts, stôs, shts)
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 stzen, from Old High German stzan.]
stoss [stɒs (German) ʃtoːs]
adj
(Earth Sciences / 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]
n
(Biographies / Stoss, Viet (?1445-1533) M, German, ARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor, ARTS AND CRAFTS: woodcarver) Viet (faɪət). ?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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