'Cockshut' definitions:
Definition of 'Cockshut'
From: GCIDE
- Cockshut \Cock"shut`\, n. A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] --Nares. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]