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▪ I. cocklet1|ˈkɒklɪt| [f. cock n.2 + -let.] A small cock (of hay, etc.).
1834Brit. Husb. I. 490 The grass..should then be gathered..with forks, into small ‘cocklets’ or ‘foot-cocks’. 1876Robinson Whitby Gloss., Cocklets, small haycocks. ▪ II. ˈcocklet2 nonce-wd. [f. cock n.1 + -let.] A little cock, a cock chick.
1845Kingsley Lett. & Mem. I. 137 Make the world my cockpit, wherein main after main of cocklets, the ‘shell’ alas! ‘scarce off their heads’, come forth to slay and be slain mutually. |