cockshut

English

noun
Definitions
  • (obsolete) A kind of net for catching woodcock.
  • (obsolete) Twilight, when woodcock would be caught.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English cokshote com from English cock (penis, male domestic chicken, a shock pile of grain, diminutive suffix, male, a roundish heap, rooster) + English shut.

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shut

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