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Etymology
Uncertain.
Noun
cockal (countable and uncountable, plural cockals)
- (obsolete, uncountable, games) A game played with sheep bones instead of dice.
- (obsolete, countable) The bone used in playing the game; a huckle bone.
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 Hunt, , →OCLC, pages 102–103:[The altar is] of a little Tranſverce bone; / VVhich boyes and Bruckel'd children call / (Playing for Points and Pins) Cockall.
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