1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in (rev. ed.) sig. hjv Take thenne and frette hym faste wyth a cockeshotecorde: and bynde hym to a fourme.
1573 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 438 in (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 Whypcorde, ijd.: cokshut corde, xijd.