Thesaurus: cockshut
A kind of net to catch woodcock.
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- n. A kind of net to catch woodcock.
- A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.
- A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time orlight, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to thetome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.
- n. A kind of net to catch woodcock.