| 单词 | cockshut light |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockshut light Twilight. Frequently as a modifier or more fully in cockshut light, cockshut time, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall nighteOE evengloamOE eveningOE gloamingc1000 darknessa1382 twilighting1387 crepusculum1398 crepusculec1400 darkc1400 twilight1412 sky1515 twinlightc1532 day-going?1552 cockshut1592 shutting1598 blind man's holiday1599 candle-lighting1605 gropsing1606 nightfall1612 dusk1622 torchlighta1656 candlelight1663 crepuscle1665 shut1667 mock-shade1669 close1696 duskish1696 glooma1699 setting1699 dimmit1746 to-fall of the day or night1748 darklins1767 even-close1781 mirkning1790 gloaming-shot1793 darkening1814 bat-flying time1818 gloama1821 between-light1821 settle1822 dayfall1823 evenfall1825 onfall1825 owl-hoot1832 glooming1842 darkfall1884 smokefall1936 dusk-light1937 the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [adjective] > of sunset or nightfall earlya1400 crepusculinec1550 cockshut1592 nightward1631 crepusculous1646 crepuscular1679 sunsetty1860 dimps1891 1592 Arden of Feversham sig. E.2 Let me neuer draw a sword againe, Nor prosper in the twilight, cockshut light. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 23 Thomas the Earle of Surrey and himselfe, Much about cockshut time..Went through the army cheering vp the soldiors. View more context for this quotation 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Cane e lupo, Cock-shut, or twilight, as when a man cannot discerne a dog from a Wolfe. a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) iii. i. 26 Come, come away then, a fine Cock shoot evening. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 35 Cockshut, the close of day. 1868 H. Kingsley Mathilde III. 79 It was getting dusk, cockshot time as they would have said at Sheepsden. 1984 M. O'Donoghue Jedder's Land (new ed.) 74 A fox slipped between the Trees, like a trailing, rust brown scarf, and it was cockshut. < as lemmas |
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