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cockal ? Obs.|ˈkɒkəl, ˈkɒkɔːl|
Forms: 6 cok all, 6–8 cock-all, 7 cockeall, coccal, cockle, 7–8 cockall, 7–9 cockal.
[app. it was orig. two words cock all; but no evidence as to the derivation appears to have come down.]
1. The ‘knuckle-bone’ or astragalus; esp. that of a sheep, etc., used for playing with (see 2).
1562Turner Herbal ii. 161 b, The bone, called in Greke astragalos, and in English Cok all. 1648Herrick Hesper. The Temple, A little transverce bone; Which boyes and bruckel'd children call (Playing for points and pins) cockall. 1653Urquhart Rabelais (1807) I. 216 The tables and cards, with a deal of cock-alls, mumblety-pegs, and wheels of fortune. 1690W. Walker Idiom. Anglo-Lat. 396 See where the cockals (dice) are (vide ubi tali sint).
2. A game played with ‘knuckle-bones’; ‘dibs’. Also, a game played by the ancients with these bones marked like dice (but on four sides only); Lat. ludus talaris.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 392 Lysander [said] that children must be deceived with the play of cock-all, and men with othes. 1611Cotgr., Tales, Dice; also, the game tearmed Cockall. 1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1658) 113 An huckle-bone, such wherewith children play cockall. 1696Kennett Romæ Antiq. (1713) 249 The Greeks and Romans had two sorts of games at dice, the ludus talorum, or play at cockall, and the ludus tessararum, or what we call dice. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) i, The game at cock all, Ludus talaris. Ibid. v, Astragalus, the huckle-bone. Meton. the play at cockal, dice, or tables. 1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 549 note, Some games that were in use at Athens, as dice, cockal, odd and even.
3. Comb. cockal-bone = cockal 1.
1606Holland Sueton. Annot. 36 To cast the Dice or cockall bones. 1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1658) 115 When all four cock-all-bones appeared..all with different faces. 1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 721/1 The bones of the tarsus in the horse are, 1st, the astragalus, or ‘cockal-bone,’ as it is vulgarly named. |