\Cock"al\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
1. A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice [Obs.]
2. The bone used in playing the game; -- called also {huckle
   bone}. [Obs.] --Nares.
         A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled
         children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal.
                                               --Herrick.