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Cockshy   Listen
noun
Cockshy  n.  
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."






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