† ˈcockwater 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 Cockwater 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).