Meaning of cockshut | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A kind of net for catching woodcock.
   countable, obsolete
2. Twilight, when poultry would be shut in for the night.
   uncountable

Examples

“Sir Richard Ratcliff: Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself, Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.”

“1 Fai.: Mistress, this is only spite: For you would not yesternight Kiss him in the cock-shut light⟳.”

“In the quiet cockshut after a heavy darg, a boonfellow likes to croodle with her fanger (or he with his bellibone) as they watch⟳ the sunset through the eyethurl.”

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