Cockshut

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cockshut \Cock"shut`\, n.
     A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] --Nares.
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     {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.
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