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Definition of Cockshot
1. cockshy [n -S] - See also: cockshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockshot
Literary usage of Cockshot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1903)
"At Bettws a well-marked band of cockshot rock lies about 350 feet above the Red
... At Clawdd-du the cockshot is thrown down west by the Hendre Fault and ..."
2. The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, D.D. Sometime by William Laud, William Scott, James Bliss (1854)
"The third witness was Mr. cockshot, one of Mr. Attorney ... By which your Lps.
may see how active Mr. cockshot was1 against a church-officer, and in so foul ..."
3. The Parish Register of Gargrave, in the County of York. 1558-1812 by Gargrave, Eng. (Parish), W. J. Stavert, Yorkshire Parish Register Society (1907)
"... Ann x Andrew—William Allan, Jas Bailey John Craik & Margaret cockshot both of
this par. mar. after Banns (May 30 June 6 13) 15 June 1756 by Fran» Yates, ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1823)
"... by which he gave all his estates to John cockshot and John Hartley, upon trust,
for the benefit of the plaintiff, Theophilus Hastings Ingham, ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1899)
"On this level the reef is followed from some 60 feet South of the main shaft to
the cockshot shaft, when the reef ends. The thickness of the reef throughout ..."
6. Notes from the Departmental Laboratory by Edward Sydney Simpson (1898)
"QU this level the reef is followed from some 60 feet South of the main shaft to
the cockshot shaft, when the reef ends. The thickness of the reef throughout ..."
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