The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockshut time
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.