Brewer's: Hot Cockles

A Christmas game. One blindfolded knelt down, and being struck had to guess who gave the blow.

Thus poets passing time away. Like children at hot-cockles play.

(1653.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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