Cockshut
Pronunciation : Cock"shut`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913