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cock-stele
cock-stele n. [ < cock n.1 + steal n.1] historical in later use a stick thrown at a cockerel or rooster in the custom of cock-throwing (cock-throwing n.).
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1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. xvii. f. ccxlviiv Whansoeuer his new sling and his new stone..come onys into my handes, I shall turne his slynge into a cokstewe [read cokstele], and hys stone into a fether.
a1535 T. More Pageant Verses in Compl. Wks. (1997) I. 3 I am called Chyldhod, in play is all my mynde, To cast a coyte, a cokstele, and a ball.
1864 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 20 343 A mimic of the manly sport of cock-squoiling, or throwing at the living bird, the dump being the equivalent of the cockstele, or stick.
2001 N. Orme Medieval Children (2003) v. 185 Boys' cock-fighting and the throwing of cock-steles at birds were common down to the eighteenth century.
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