cocked hat (kokthat)

[In allusion to the three-cornered cocked hat: see cock2, v.] 1. A variety of the game of bowls in which but three pins, placed at the angles of a triangle, are used. -2. A note folded into a three-cornered shape. cockee (ko-ke'), n. [Sc.; also cock: see cock1, n., 14.] In the game of curling, the spot at the end of a rink where the player must stand when he hurls his stone, usually marked by a cro in a circle. n. 1078