"coss" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 85",
          "text": "... the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) ..."
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          "ref": "1888, Rudyard Kipling, 'In Flood Time', In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 410–11:",
          "text": "A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.",
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        "A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles."
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        "(British India, South Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles."
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