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Such is this theory—like its predecessor it is put up for cockshies, and doubtless by our balloon work or by some other observations it will be upset or modified.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

Swings, roundabouts, cockshies at cocoa-nuts, rootletum, tootletum, and beer.

From Amaryllis at the Fair by Jefferies, Richard

“They’re a-making cockshies of us, sir,” said Tom Jecks; “better let two of us go ashore and chivvy ’em off.”

From Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser by Handforth, W.B.

At various places great water-tanks and reservoirs had been toppled over and smashed as though some diabolical power had made cockshies of them.

From The Soul of the War by Gibbs, Philip