Cock"shy` (?), n.
1.
A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
2.
An object at which stones are flung.
"Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy.
Dickens.
© Webster 1913.