Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cockshut"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cockshut \Cock"shut`\, n.
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.
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