Cockshut

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A large net for catching woodcock by shutting them in.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of net to catch woodcock.
  • noun. evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread.
  • noun. undefined
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A kind of net for catching woodcock.
    • Word Usage
    "Summing up, he said: "So let's raise a brendice, a cup in which a person's health is drunk, to this extraordinary language of ours, crammed full of words most ostrobogulous, bizarre and interesting, the study of which could keep us occupied from beetle-belch to cockshut."
    cross-reference
    cockshut time  
    Equivalent
    cockshut light  
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