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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cock·shy /-ˌʃaɪ/
 擲棒打靶;投棒戲;靶;擲

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.

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