cockshies

Saps call elassick busts; stone Aunt Sallies fit only for cockshies, dear boy,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891 Various

At various places great water-tanks and reservoirs had been toppled over and smashed as though some diabolical power had made cockshies of them.

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

Such is this theory -- like its predecessor it is put up for cockshies, and doubtless by our balloon work or by some other observations it will be upset or modified.

Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

"They're a-making cockshies of us, sir," said Tom Jecks; "better let two of us go ashore and chivvy 'em off."

Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870

The gipsies return from their rambling soon after the end of hop-picking, and hold a kind of informal fair on the village green with cockshies, swings, and all the clumsy games that extract money from clumsy hands.

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

I thought so; not but what they would make capital cockshies. "

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

"Now look here, Lady Venus," he remarked, "it's time there was an end of this, one way or the other; we can't be kept up here all night, waiting till it suits your Mr. Zooce to make cockshies of us.

The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance F. Anstey 1895