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Definition of Cockets
1. cocket [n] - See also: cocket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockets
Literary usage of Cockets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"... mentioned in the cockets of the meal-weighers, was not of a quality fine enough
to make the first sort of bread, called white bread, it was fixed from ..."
2. A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the ... Year of the by Great Britain (1833)
"cockets to be delivered by Shippers to Searcher to be filed. ... File of cockets
and Victualling Bill delivered to Master as the Clearance. In Ballast. ..."
3. Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Containing the Cases by Thomas Chitty, Richard Burn (1845)
"Clearance notified on contention file, and on victualling bill, and in book.
lars of the goods in the cockets with the particulars of the goods in such ..."
4. A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the by Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1836)
"File of cockets and Victualling Bill delivered to Master u the Clearance. ...
And be it further enacted, That the file of cockets and the victualling bill ..."
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