Preposition: on

• floor: These bothies have only basics: maybe a table and some chairs, with plenty of space to doss on the floor.

Converse of object

• find: Four-hour walk in from Coire Cas car park to find the doss decrepit, stinking and full of snow.

• have: I'm a first year, so having a doss!

Modifies a noun

• house: Many of them never sought even the shelter of a lodging-house, for the doss house charged not less than 4d.

• subject: It's not the doss subject that some people think.

Modifying Another Word

• just: Just dossed in the afternoon looking forward to having the weekend off.

• about: They dossed about, unemployed, for a couple of years.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: We dossed around until 4pm waiting to be allowed back in for a 5pm ferry.

• down: No terrorists, just a few pacifists who needed a place to doss down.

• out: Those attending the party must be prepared to camp or doss out in the old houses further down the glen.