cockal

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noun

A game played with sheep bones instead of dice.

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Meanings

nouncockal (countable and uncountable, plural cockals)

plural cockals

  1. obsoleteuncountablegamesA game played with sheep bones instead of dice.
  2. countableobsoleteThe 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 Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, pages 102–103

Origin

Uncertain.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

cockal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cockal

MLA

“cockal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cockal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cockal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cockal.

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