What is the meaning of Cockshy?

  • (n.) An object at which stones are flung.
  • (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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