“cock、shut”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

cock-shut

释义

cock-shut Obs. or dial.|ˈkɒkʃʌt|
Also -shoot(e, -shot.
[f. cock n.¹ + shut: perh. the time when poultry go to rest and are shut up; though some think it is = cockshoot, and refers to the time when wood-cocks ‘shoot’ or fly.]
1. attrib. in cock-shut light, cock-shut time, etc.: twilight.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, v. iii. 70 Thomas the Earle of Surrey, and himselfe, Much about Cockshut time..Went through the Army, chearing vp the Souldiers.1603B. Jonson Satyr, For you would not yesternight Kiss him in the cock-shut light.c1610Middleton, etc. Widow iii. i, Come, come away, then; a fine cock-shoot evening.1611Cotgr., Brune, the euening twylight, or edge of the euening; cockshoot time.1868H. Kingsley Mad. Mathilde III. 79 It was getting dusk, cockshot time as they would have said at Sheepsden.
2. n. Twilight.
1598Florio, Cane e lupo, Cock-shut, or twilight, as when a man cannot discerne a dog from a Wolfe.1855Whitby Gloss., Cockshut, the close of day.

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