Obs.
1. An obsolete medical preparation: see quot.
1611. Markham, Country Content., I. xix. (1668), 88. There be some others that … will also in the Cock-water steep slices of Licoras.
[1655. Queen’s Closet Opened, 14 (D.). Take a running cock, pull him alive, then kill him, cut him abroad by the back … then quarter him and break his bones, then put him into a rose-water still with a pottle of sack.]
a. 1690. in Hardwick, Trad. Lanc. (1872), 136. Cockwater for a consumption and cough of the lungs.
2. ‘A stream of water brought in a trough, through a long pole, in order to wash out the sand of the tin-ore into the launder, while it is bruising in the coffer of a stamping mill’ (Chambers, Cycl. Supp., 1753)
