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Word Meanings - COCKSHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks. 2. An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy

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1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks. 2. An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy. Dickens.

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