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Definition of Cockshies
1. cockshy [n] - See also: cockshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockshies
Literary usage of Cockshies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"... I cannot countenance you in exclaiming that you are the Water God of Hamble
Point, and then at a given signal to Purcell, making cockshies of all the ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"Such an opportunity for cockshies was not to be missed by the village youths,
and they proceeded to the vicinity of the tree in a body. ..."
3. The English Peasant: Studies: Historical, Local, and Biographic by Richard Heath (1893)
"The gipsy carts, the photographers' waggons, the ginger-bread stalls and cockshies.
As dusk came, all the respectable men, their wives and children, ..."
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