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Battledoor :: Battledoor (n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock..

Cockswain :: Cockswain (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

Thricecock :: Thricecock (n.) The missel thrush.

Meacock :: Meacock (n.) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man..

Skirlcock :: Skirlcock (n.) The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note.

Cockatoo :: Cockatoo (n.) A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, / Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus..

Cockneyish :: Cockneyish (a.) Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys..

Spit Curl :: Spitchcocked (a.) Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.

Main :: Main (n.) A match at cockfighting.

Well :: Well (v. i.) A depressed space in the after part of the deck; -- often called the cockpit.

Lumpfish :: Lumpfish (n.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl..

Hemimetabolic :: Hemimetabolic (a.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches..

Earcockle :: Earcockle (n.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms..

Four-way :: Four-way (a.) Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve..

Bawcock :: Bawcock (n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.

Cockcrowing :: Cockcrowing (n.) The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning.

Spur :: Spur (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg..

Stormfinch :: Stormcock (n.) The green woodpecker.

Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself..

Cock :: Cock (n.) A faucet or valve.

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