Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockshuts
Literary usage of Cockshuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"The twilight, or dim light in which woodcocks could most easily be caught in
cockshuts. A cock- shut, or cockshoot, was a broadway or glade in a wood, ..."
2. The Royal Forests of England by John Charles Cox (1905)
"The same place-name survives on the sites of several of our old forests ; and
licences to use cockshuts were granted at ..."
3. Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids by William Farrer (1907)
"58s., charcoal 12</., an old boat of wreck sold 3</., 'cockshuts' sold I7</., a
calf of estray from ..."
4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1849)
"A similar stratification, but with some thick! beds of quartz rocks, called the
cockshuts, particularly well I seen along the anticlinal line between Cwm ..."
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