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