Definitions for: Cockshy

Webster (1913) Definition: Cock"shy`, 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. --Dickens.