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单词 cock-road
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cock-roadn.

Forms:

α. 1600s cock-rode.

β. 1600s cock-rood.

γ. 1600s–1800s cock-road, 1700s coc-road.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cock n.1, road n.
Etymology: Probably < cock n.1 (compare sense 7a at that entry) + road n., although compare also rode v.2, rode n.3Much earlier currency is perhaps shown by Old English cocrodu ( < cock n.1 + Old English rodu clearing (see discussion at road n.)), attested only as a boundary marker in a set of bounds of earlier composition (ostensibly 10th cent.):lOE Bounds (Sawyer 608) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 157 Swa forð be clyfæ oð ða cocrodæ, swa of þære cocrode adun east andlang weges.Later medieval currency is probably implied by field names: Cokerode (1319, West Riding, Yorkshire), la Cockrode (1374, Wiltshire), Kokerode (1373, Rutland), Cokerode (1469, Northamptonshire), Kokrode (a1485, Norfolk); compare also Cocke Roide , North Bierley, West Riding, Yorkshire (1572; now Cock Royd). Explanations of the word as showing the meaning ‘the net used to catch woodcock in a cock-road’ such as the following (also in later dictionaries) may be based on misinterpretation of uses such as that in quot. 1648:1704 Dict. Rusticum Coc-roads, a sort of a Net, contriv'd chiefly for the taking of Woodcocks.It is uncertain whether there is any connection with the following instance of cockrod' (with mark of suspension apparently representing an inflectional ending) occurring in Latin records relating to South Tawton in Devon, in which this form may denote a measure of land (perhaps compare rod n.1 8, although this would leave the first element unexplained) or may be in apposition to terra ‘land’ (hence designating land which is or is used as a cock-road):1515 in Notes & Queries (1911) 30 Dec. 526/1 Et de iiijd de firma ij Cokrod' terr'.
Obsolete.
A broad woodland glade or track along which woodcock (or other game birds) regularly fly; esp. one which has been deliberately constructed, and across which nets are stretched in order to catch the birds. Cf. cockshoot n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] > place for catching birds
cockshoot1353
cock-glade1574
cock-roada1613
glade1617
glodea1625
finchery1887
the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > clearing
sladec893
riddingOE
wood lay?c1225
wood lind?c1225
wood rise?c1225
laund1340
cockshoot1353
gladea1535
cock-glade1574
nether vert1598
cock-roada1613
opening1678
opening1743
patana1854
a1613 G. Owen Hist. Pembrokeshire in Cambrian Reg. 1796 (1799) 2 143/2 Theire cheefe taking is in cock rodes in woods, with netts erected up betweene two trees.
1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 149 The net caught many a wood-cock, untill the said Aldermen and Sir John Maynard broke through it, and spoyled the cock-road.
?1775 Fortune-hunter iv. 44 On each Hill there grow thick Woods; betwixt them both, there is a large Cut, on purpose for a Cock-Road.
1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 588 These tracks or open glades in woods, are sometimes called cockshoots, and cockroads.
1889 H. Saunders Illustr. Man. Brit. Birds 554 The male persistently follows certain tracks along glades in woods—often called ‘cock-roads’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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