cockleert
English
Noun
cockleert (plural cockleerts)
- (dialectal, southwest England) Cockcrow; dawn; daybreak.
- 1899, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 166, page 200:
- "Zee," he continued, "cockleert be on the creep."
- 1901, Gwendoline Keats, Tales of Dunstáble Weir, page 146:
- Howsomever, I woke him at cockleert the next morning.
- 2016, Amrita Tezla, The Folk of the Twill, →ISBN, page 116:
- 'At cockleert (dawn), 'twas all mizzle an' rimy, like; but he got out of his bed, any'ow. An' he donned his clathers an' hobbled cross his courtlage to the stable – an' not expecting a cheery sight.
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