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We've all missed this entry in OED. It's from 1909, though, and later books derive the Dutch from the French. The spelling soss would seem to confirm the Misterton Soss example. See also Llewellyn, The influence of Low Dutch on the English vocabulary, which has a whole chapter on words borrowed in connection to draining land, which includes sasse. Keith † sasse, n. Forms: Also 16 soss. <https://oed.com/frequencybandinformation/1> Etymology: < Dutch sas, of obscure origin. The French sas of the same meaning is probably < Dutch. <https://oed.com/view/Entry/171138?redirectedFrom=sasse#> Obsolete. = lock n.2 11<https://oed.com/view/Entry/109596#eid39057843>. 1642 C. Vermuyden Disc. Drayning Great Fennes 22 A Sasse to be set to let water into old Welland to preserve Navigation. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 25 Jan. (1970) III. 18 Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the King's Lands about Deptford, to be a wett dock. 1665 W. Dodson Designe Draining Fens 7 The Sosses at Stanground,..and others,..are of singular good use, yet I do affirm, there will be a necessity of having a Soss and Sleuce near Ditton. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. 57 A navigable Sasse or Sluice at Standground. ________________________________ From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Kathryn Bullen <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 13 September 2020 17:49 To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: What is a soss? See 'Misterton Sass' marked on the 1700 map HCC9045 - it does look like some kind of sluice/lock on the Bicker Dyke. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EPNL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=EPNL&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EPNL, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/