Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Daybreak.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Next morning we started out at cocklight; we two on horseback, the King on an ambling mule.
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Next morning my eyes opened before cocklight, and I lay awake ashamed.
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'My child,' I said, 'I have had a dream, sent I don't doubt by some god or other, that you went to the grove before cocklight, to do your duty to the Goddess with the first of the day.
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And Ernest drove him in to Ashburton, at cocklight of a stormy day, and was going in again that evening to meet his uncle and fetch him home.
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But very early in the morning -- before cocklight it was -- your great-grandfather came downstairs to see that Wesley had a cup of tea before his early start onward.
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It was in my mind to say, "Be on my ship before cocklight, and with the dawn we will be away.
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"From cocklight to the dim, Harry, there is always something needing my care.
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