Obs. = COCK-SHOOT.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., Country Life. Thou hast thy cockrood, and thy glade To take the precious phesant made.
1648. C. Walker, Hist. Independ., I. 149. This net caught many a Wood-cock, until the said Aldermen and Sir John Maynard broke through it, and spoiled the cock-road.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Cock-road, a contrivance for the taking of woodcocks…. They cut roads through woods, thickets, groves, &c.
These roads they usually make thirty-five, or forty foot broad, perfectly strait and clear; and to two opposite trees they tie the net.
¶ Erroneously explained:
1708–15. Kersey, Cock-roads, a Net contriv’d chiefly for the taking of Wood-cocks. So 1821, Bailey.
1726. Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Cocking-roads, a sort of a net, contriv’d chiefly for the taking of woodcocks.
