cockshut

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  1. A large net for catching woodcock by shutting them in.
  2. Cockshut time, cockshut light the time or the light (twilight) of evening: so called from that being the time when the cockshut was commonly used, the woodcock then going out to feed. Nares. About cock-shut time. Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. For you would not yesternight Kiss him in the cock-shut light. B. Jonson, The Satyr. A fine cock-shoot evening. Middleton (and others), The Widow, iii. 1.

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  • After cockshut, when the dishes were scoured and put away and the cooking fire had settled into a gentle toil of soft flames, Greta went to the cloak hook and took down her sheep's wool Are you going out again, dear?" —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 03 - March 1995
 

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  1. Also in variant form cockshoot; from cock + shut.
 

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