\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.