Associations to the word «Cockshut»

Wiktionary

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope