Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In England
- n. A seal of the custom-house.
- n. A scroll of parchment sealed and delivered by the officers of the custom-house to a merchant as a warrant that his merchandise is entered.
- n. The office of entry.
- n. A stamp; an official seal of any kind.
- To stamp or mark with a cocket. See cocket, n., 4.
- n. Same as cocket-bread.
- n. A loaf or cake of cocket-bread. See first extract under cocket-bread.
- n. A measure. See first extract under cocket-bread.
- Brisk; pert; saucy.
- n. A pert, swaggering fellow; a gallant.
- To join or fasten in building.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, obsolete a document issued by the bond office stating that duty has been paid and goods may be sold.
- n. UK, obsolete An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.
- n. obsolete A measure for bread.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Pert; saucy.
- n. (Eng. Law) A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.
- n. engraving An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.
- n. obsolete A measure for bread.
Examples
“Centers of the first class are commonly called cocket centers.”
“It was found to be a mistake for by-cocket, which is the correct word.”
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
“Hauing paid the custome, it behoueth to haue a quittance or cocket sealed and firmed with the customers hand, in confirmation of the dispatch and clearing, and before departure thence, to cause the sayd customer to cause search to be made, to the end that at the voiages returne there be no cauilation made, as it oftentimes happeneth.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“And the sayd customer by vertue hereof shall vpon due and sufficient proofe thereof made in the custome house giue them sufficient cocket or certificate for the safe passing out thereof accordingly.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Whereas also the foresaid marchants were not wont to pay for a cocket for the conueyance and transportation of their goods out of the realme”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“So I did, and said it was the finest thing I'd struck, beat Xenophon into a cocket hat; the blighter fairly glowed.”
“As examples of a cocket and of a supported center and also as examples of well thought out center design we give the two centers shown by Figs. 148 and 149, both designed for a 50-ft. span segmental arch by the same engineer.”
“The development of the center shown by Fig. 148 into the cocket center shown by Fig. 149 is plainly traceable from the drawings.”
“On the corners of the table were trenchers of white bread -- wastel, cocket, manchet, of fine wheaten flour, -- and brown bread of barley, millet and rye.”
“It was found to be a mistake for _by-cocket_, which is the correct word.”
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Quaintnesses
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