dial. Also cook. [Cf. CHUCK.] To throw, cast, chuck. Hence Cuck-ball, a kind of rounders.
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., Cook, to throw. ‘Cook me that ball.’ Glou.
1788. W. Hutton, Bosworth Field, Introd. (1813), 17. In his father’s house … he cuckt his ball … with the same delight as other lads.
1881. Leicester Gloss., Cuck, to throw; also, to jerk, lurch. ‘Cuck us the ball’; ‘The carriage cucks about so.’
1888. Sheffield Gloss., Cuck-ball, a game at ball.
