foss
nounUS /fɔs/
Etymology From Icelandic or Norwegian foss, both from Old Norse fors (“waterfall”). Doublet of force (“waterfall”).
1
Northern England A waterfall.
- Another of his flock was spotted garrotted, one found twisted and drowned at the bottom of a foss and a third split cleanly from scut to teeth.2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 101: