Usually means: Old game of throwing at objects.
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  1. cockshy: Merriam-Webster
  2. cockshy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cockshy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cockshy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cockshy: Wordnik
  6. cockshy: Wiktionary
  7. cockshy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cockshy: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cockshy, cockshy: Dictionary.com
  10. Cockshy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. cockshy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Cockshy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. Cockshy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. cockshy: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cockshy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. cockshy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cockshy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cockshy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cockshies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cockshy)

noun:  A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players.
noun:  An object at which stones are flung; (by extension) a person who is abused or vilified.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To pelt; to throw things at.

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