The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockshut
Cockshut \Cock"shut`\, n.
A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.]
--Nares.
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.
Wiktionary
cockshut
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A kind of net for catching woodcock. 2 (context obsolete English) Twilight, when woodcock would be caught.
Usage examples of "cockshut".
Zeldornius and in war invincible, well might a man expect spirits of the dead on these quiet hills about cockshut time.