Cock-Bawd, subs. (old).—A male brothel keeper. [Quoted in Grose
(1785).]
Cockchafer, subs. (thieves’).—1. The treadmill. For synonyms, see Wheel
of life.
1851–61. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lon. Poor, vol. II., p. 59. ‘He
enpiated,’ as it is called, this offence by three months’ exercise
on the cockchafer (treadmill).
1864. Glasgow Citizen, Nov. 19. The Jeremy Diddler who forges his
honest name to a fakement, incurring thereby a drag at the
cockchafer.