n. 1. Sleep; rest. 2. A crude or makeshift bed. intr.v. dossed, doss·ing, doss·es To go to bed, especially in a crude or makeshift bed; sleep. [Perhaps alteration of dorse, back, from Latin dorsum.] |
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