Definition of cock

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Cock (n.) The notch of an arrow or crossbow.

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Air Cock :: Air cock () A faucet to allow escape of air.
Logcock :: Logcock (n.) The pileated woodpecker.
Cockhorse :: Cockhorse (n.) A high or tall horse.
Orthoptera :: Orthoptera (n. pl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect..
Woodcock :: Woodcock (n.) Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds..
Harl :: Harl (n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies..
Burette :: Burette (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock..
Pinchcock :: Pinchcock (n.) A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
Cockroach :: Cockroach (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera..
Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights..
Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
Cock :: Cock (v. t.) To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
Uncock :: Uncock (v. t.) To let down the cock of, as a firearm..
Cockle :: Cockle (v. t.) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting..
Cock :: Cock (v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim..
Shittlecock :: Shittlecock (n.) A shuttlecock.
Alectryom'achy :: Alectryom'achy (n.) Cockfighting.
Cockscomb :: Cockscomb (n.) A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli..
Flabellum :: Flabellum (n.) A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers..
Four-way :: Four-way (a.) Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve..
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