cess
/sɛs/ · noun
Meaning
- An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
- Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
- Bound; measure.
- To levy a cess.
- The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
- A bog, in particular a peat bog.
- A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
- To cease; to neglect.
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