cockshut
/ˈkɑkˌʃʌt/
noun
- Twilight; the time of evening when daylight fades and chickens go to roost.
- We walked home in the cockshut, as the sky turned orange and purple.
- By cockshut, the village was already dark and the streets were empty.
- The old poem described the quiet beauty of cockshut in the countryside.