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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Cockshut

· Cock·shut · IPA
01 n. A kind of net to catch woodcock.
  1. 1.
    A kind of net to catch woodcock.[Obs.]
Phrases & compounds
Cockshut time — evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread.