stoss (not comparable)
(geology) Facing towards the flow of a glacier or fluid.
Used to describe one side of rôche moutonnée.
Used to describe one side of a subaerial dune or subaqueous ripple in sediment.
• (geology, nautical) lee
Source: Wiktionary
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
