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cockals

cockals is the plural of cockal.

Meaning of cockal

Noun

cockal (countable and uncountable, plural cockals)

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) A game played with sheep bones instead of dice.
  2. (countable, obsolete) The bone used in playing the game; a huckle bone.
    • [The altar is] of a little Tranſverce bone; / VVhich boyes and Bruckel'd children call / (Playing for Points and Pins) Cockall.1648, Robert Herrick, “The Fairie Temple: Or, Oberons Chappell. Dedicated to Mr. John Merrifield, Counsellor at Law.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John...

Questions about cockals

What is cockals the plural of?
Cockals is the plural of cockal.

Words near cockals in the dictionary

  1. cockale
  2. cockaleekie
  3. cockales
  4. cockalorum
  5. cockalorums
  6. cockals
  7. cockaludicrous
  8. cockamamie
  9. cockamamies
  10. cockamamy
  11. cockamaroo

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