Cock″shut′ (?), n. A kind of net to catch woodcock. Nares.
Cockshut timeorlight, evening twilight; nightfall; — so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. Shak. B. Jonson.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.