† ˈcock-road, rood 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 The net caught many a wood-cock, untill the said Aldermen and Sir John Maynard broke through it, and spoyled the cock⁓road. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl., Cock-road, a contrivance for the taking of woodcocks..They cut roads through woods, thickets, groves, etc. These roads they usually make thirty-five, or forty feet 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. |