Word for the day -- Cockshut

Today's word is, as the heading says, "cockshut."  This is a great word, because it sounds really filthy, but it's actually very straightforward-- cockshut is the time of day that poultry were traditionally shut away to rest, i.e. evening twilight.  But I can just imagine a bunch of businessmen (or steelworkers, if that image is better for you.  Whatever you like.) at the bar after work-- "Sorry, fellows, but I must be off.  I prefer to be home for supper by cockshut."  It's basically obscure British English dialect at this point, which is a shame.  I think it deserves a renaissance.

It should also not be confused with Cockshutt, a village/parish in Shropshire, or the Cockshutt Plow Company, founded in Ontario in 1877 by Ignatius Cockshutt.