Difference between Sap and Cosh

What is the difference between Sap and Cosh?

Sap as a noun is the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. while Cosh as a noun is a weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.

Sap

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person. A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack. A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. To pierce with saps. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. To gradually weaken. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12

Example sentence: I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Cosh

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.

Part of speech: symbol

Definition: The symbol of the hyperbolic function hyperbolic cosine.

We hope you now know whether to use Sap or Cosh in your sentence.

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