Usually means: Evening closure for birds, poultry.
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  1. cockshut: Merriam-Webster
  2. cockshut: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. cockshut: Wiktionary
  5. cockshut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  8. Cockshut: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. cockshut: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Cockshut: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. cockshut: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. cockshut: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Cockshut: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Cockshut: World Wide Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cockshut)

▸ noun:  (countable, obsolete) A kind of net for catching woodcock.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Twilight, when poultry would be shut in for the night.

Similar:
cornshuck, shack, skeet, shuck pen, sheppy, stickshed, shaw, woodshock, scaw, cockle, more...

Opposite:
dawn, daybreak, sunrise

Phrases:
cockshut time, more...

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Similar:
cornshuck, shack, skeet, shuck pen, sheppy, stickshed, shaw, woodshock, scaw, cockle, more...

Opposite:
dawn, daybreak, sunrise

Phrases:
cockshut time, more...



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