cockthrowing (kokthro"ing)

An old sport consisting in tying a cock to a stake and throwing sticks at it until it was killed. See cock - stele. Cock -throwing, Cock-a-doodle do! 'tis the bravest game. Wit's Recreation, 1640. The very barbarous amusement of cock - throwing , which was at least as old as Chaucer, and in which Sir T. More when a young man had been especially expert, is said to have been peculiarly English. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iv.