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Definition: COCKSHUT TIME

Part of Speech Definition
Expression 1. Evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] --Shak. B. Jonson.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Definition: COCKSHUT TIME

Part of SpeechDefinition
Expression1. Evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] --Shak. B. Jonson.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Common Expressions: COCKSHUT TIME

ExpressionsDefinition
Cockshut timeEvening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] --Shak. B. Jonson. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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