Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large net for catching woodcock by shutting them in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kind of net to catch woodcock.
- noun [Obs.] evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread.
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- noun obsolete A kind of
net for catchingwoodcock .
Etymologies
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cock + shut
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arby commented on the word cockshut
evening; twilight
May 18, 2007
seanahan commented on the word cockshut
Wow, I just assumed this was dirty.
October 25, 2007
austinwords commented on the word cockshut
Some other words for evening or twilight:
- afternight
- antitwilight
- cocklight
- crepuscule
- e'en
- eventide
- gloaming
- undertime
- vesper
- vespertide
- vespertine
February 5, 2008
she commented on the word cockshut
Wow. "I'm sure finding it hard to wait for cocklight!" (another: twitterlight)
July 11, 2008
majan commented on the word cockshut
word "cockshut" means ( I know this word from my childhood and have seen it used often) time just after sunset ( when hens and and other farm birds were led to their coops and shut down for the night.
July 18, 2009