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COCKSHUT TIME

Definition: COCKSHUT TIME

COCKSHUT TIME

1. Evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] --Shak. B. Jonson.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: COCKSHUT TIME

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	COCKSHUT TIME. The evening, when fowls go to roost. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: COCKSHUT TIME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-i-k-m-o-s-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: checkouts, couthiest, mouthiest, touchiest.
	-4 letters: checkout, choicest, chokiest, chuckies, cockiest, cockshut, cosmetic, couthest, homesick, mistouch, mothiest, muckiest, stickout, thickest, thickets, thickset, timeouts, titmouse.
	-5 letters: chemics, chemist, chicest, choices, chutist, cockish, cometic, costume, couches, couthie, cutches, cutties, echoism, hokiest, homiest, ketotic, misteuk, mouches, mutches, outhits, schmuck, schtick, scottie, sickout, smectic, stickum, succoth, tectums, thicket.
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Alternative Orthography: COCKSHUT TIME

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 43 4B 53 48 55 54 54 49 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01000011 01001011 01010011 01001000 01010101 01010100 00100000 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#83 &#72 &#85 &#84 &#32 &#84 &#73 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0043 004B 0053 0048 0055 0054 0054 0049 004D 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3749374553425554254434739

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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