Meanings
nouncockleert (plural cockleerts)
plural cockleerts
- dialectalsouthwest EnglandCockcrow; dawn; daybreak.
"Zee," he continued, "cockleert be on the creep."
1899, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 166, page 2002 more examples
Howsomever, I woke him at cockleert the next morning.
1901, Gwendoline Keats, Tales of Dunstáble Weir, page 146'At cockleert (dawn), 'twas all mizzle an' rimy, like; but he got out of his bed, any'ow. An' he donned his clathers an' hobbled cross his courtlage to the stable – an' not expecting a cheery sight.
2016, Amrita Tezla, The Folk of the Twill, →ISBN, page 116
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