'Twould have done your heart good, Mus' Springett, to see the two hundred of us masons, jewellers, carvers, gilders, iron-workers and the rest--all toiling like cock-angels, and this mad Italian hornet fleeing one to next up and down the chapel. Done your heart good, it would!'
This is from "Rewards and Fairies"/"The Wrong Thing" by Kipling.
http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/digi300.pdf
I do not understand what "cock-angels" means.
The Note of Kipling Society Web says;
cock-angels perhaps to be glossed from OED:
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_wrongthing1.htm
What does it mean?
I am glad if someone kindly teach me.