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cock

kɑk
WordNet
In an oval frame the female personification Health (Sanitas). She has as attributes a cock (watchfulness), a snake that coils around a staff and a chalice with water. The print is a mirror image
In an oval frame the female personification Health (Sanitas). She has as attributes a cock (watchfulness), a snake that coils around a staff and a chalice with water. The print is a mirror image
  1. (v) cock
    set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
  2. (v) cock
    tilt or slant to one side "cock one's head"
  3. (v) cock
    to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
  4. (n) cock
    adult male bird
  5. (n) cock
    adult male chicken
  6. (n) cock
    the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
  7. (n) cock
    faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
  8. (n) cock
    obscene terms for penis
Illustrations
Two masked and costumed men - one seen from behind with a cock on his belt, one in oriental attire - stand in front of a veiled lady with a rummage pot in her hands. This print is part of a series of ten numbered prints: a title print and nine prints in which two or three masked and / or dressed up figures are depicted in full.
Two masked and costumed men - one seen from behind with a cock on his belt, one in oriental attire - stand in front of a veiled lady with a rummage pot in her hands. This print is part of a series of ten numbered prints: a title print and nine prints in which two or three masked and / or dressed up figures are depicted in full.
Sheet with 40 expressions of expressions, including 'Every king in' t zyn ',' My cock is king 'and' The youth must be gone '. A caption below each image. Numbered top left: No. 47.
Sheet with 40 expressions of expressions, including 'Every king in' t zyn ',' My cock is king 'and' The youth must be gone '. A caption below each image. Numbered top left: No. 47.
Round bowsprit with shield and violin pieces. The bowsprit has eight cheeks, with cockpit tires clamped to the king. Two clasps for the slings have been fitted on either side about two thirds of the way. On both sides is a violin piece with a disc underneath. The shield has brackets for the stamping stick and the geusstung; at the back are eyes for the walking stays and other stays.
Round bowsprit with shield and violin pieces. The bowsprit has eight cheeks, with cockpit tires clamped to the king. Two clasps for the slings have been fitted on either side about two thirds of the way. On both sides is a violin piece with a disc underneath. The shield has brackets for the stamping stick and the geusstung; at the back are eyes for the walking stays and other stays.
Model of a cocked bowsprit. Model of a round bowsprit consisting of four pieces, which are connected with lip welds and nuts on the inside. The ends are octagonal. The fairing tires are painted. Scale 1:12 (scale on model).
Model of a cocked bowsprit. Model of a round bowsprit consisting of four pieces, which are connected with lip welds and nuts on the inside. The ends are octagonal. The fairing tires are painted. Scale 1:12 (scale on model).
In cartouche: Should the cock well profit / do of. desen / so sou tvolck also blyde as / hy selve vesen. In the bottom center a child sticks his head through the scrollwork. Garlands with bunches of fruit hang around the cartouche. Sheet M from a series of 16 sheets, lettered AQ. Shaded or dotted background.
In cartouche: Should the cock well profit / do of. desen / so sou tvolck also blyde as / hy selve vesen. In the bottom center a child sticks his head through the scrollwork. Garlands with bunches of fruit hang around the cartouche. Sheet M from a series of 16 sheets, lettered AQ. Shaded or dotted background.
View of a street with the print shop and publisher of Hieronymus Cock on the corner: In De Vier Winden / Aux Quatre Vents. In two doorways a woman and a man, possibly the publishing couple Volcxken Diericx and Hieronymus Cock. Under the publisher the text: "laet de Cock coken om tuolchx Wille". Print is part of an album.
View of a street with the print shop and publisher of Hieronymus Cock on the corner: In De Vier Winden / Aux Quatre Vents. In two doorways a woman and a man, possibly the publishing couple Volcxken Diericx and Hieronymus Cock. Under the publisher the text: "laet de Cock coken om tuolchx Wille". Print is part of an album.
Petrus Codde crosses the narrow road to heaven and Theodorus de Cock the broad road to hell, 1705. The pope and the devil send the walkers on the broad road into purgatory. Sheet no. 6 in the series of 13 sheets with cartoons of the Jesuits entitled Roma Pertubata, 1707. Part of the print work published under the collective title 't Lust-Hof van Momus with the bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Petrus Codde crosses the narrow road to heaven and Theodorus de Cock the broad road to hell, 1705. The pope and the devil send the walkers on the broad road into purgatory. Sheet no. 6 in the series of 13 sheets with cartoons of the Jesuits entitled Roma Pertubata, 1707. Part of the print work published under the collective title 't Lust-Hof van Momus with the bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Model of a round bowsprit consisting of four pieces, which are connected on the inside with linked lip welds. The end is flattened at the top. The fairing tires are painted.
Model of a round bowsprit consisting of four pieces, which are connected on the inside with linked lip welds. The end is flattened at the top. The fairing tires are painted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Cock
    A chief man; a leader or master. "Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us."
  2. Cock
    A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths. "By cock and pie."
  3. Cock
    A faucet or valve.
  4. Cock
    a penis.
  5. Cock
    A small concial pile of hay.
  6. Cock
    A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. "Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks !"
  7. Cock
    The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
  8. Cock
    The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. "He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock ."
  9. Cock
    The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
  10. Cock
    The indicator of a balance.
  11. Cock
    The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
  12. Cock
    The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
  13. Cock
    The style of gnomon of a dial.
  14. Cock
    To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing. "Cocked , fired, and missed his man."
  15. Cock
    To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
  16. Cock
    To put into cocks or heaps, as hay. "Under the cocked hay."
  17. Cock
    To set erect; to turn up. "Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.", "Dick would cock his nose in scorn."
  18. Cock
    To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner. "They cocked their hats in each other's faces."
  19. Cock
    To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
  20. Cock
    To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
  21. Cock
    To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) cock
    The male of the domestic fowl; specifically, a male chicken one year old or older, one less than a year old being properly called a cockerel. The cock is celebrated for his lordly demeanor, his pugnacity, and his crowing before dawn or in token of victory.
  2. (n) cock
    The male of any other bird, particularly of the gallinaceous kind: in this use especially in composition, as in peacock, turkey-cock, cockrobin, cock-sparrow, etc.
  3. (n) cock
    A bird, particularly a gallinaceous bird, without reference to sex: usually in composition or with a distinctive epithet or qualifying phrase, as in blackcock, logcock, woodcock, and the phrasal names below.
  4. (n) cock
    Cock-crowing; the time when cocks crow in the morning.
  5. (n) cock
    A leader; a chief person; a ruling spirit: as, cock of the school.
  6. (n) cock
    A fellow; chap: a familiar term of address or appellation, usually preceded by old, and used much in the same way as fellow, chap, boy, etc.
  7. (n) cock
    A vane in the shape of a cock; a weather-cock.
  8. (n) cock
    A faucet or turn-valve, contrived for the purpose of permitting or arresting the flow of fluids or air through a pipe, usually taking its special name from its peculiar use or construction: as, air-cock, feed-cock, gage-cock, etc.
  9. (n) cock
    The portion of the lock of a firearm which by its fall, when released through the action of the trigger, produces the discharge; in a flint-lock, the part that holds the flint; in a percussion-lock, the hammer.
  10. (n) cock
    In a firearm, the position into which the hammer is brought by being pulled back to the first or second catch. See at full cock, at half cock, below.
  11. (n) cock
    The style or gnomon of a dial.
  12. (n) cock
    The needle of a balance.
  13. (n) cock
    The piece which forms the bearing of the balance in a clock or watch.
  14. (n) cock
    Same as cockee.
  15. (n) cock
    A fictitious narrative, in verse or prose, sold in the streets as a true account; a cock-and-bull story; a canard.
  16. cock
    To raise or draw back the cock or hammer of (a gun or pistol), as a preliminary to firing: as, he cocked his rifle.
  17. cock
    To set cocks to fighting, or to train them for fighting.
  18. cock
    To turn up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way; give a pert, knowing, or inquiring turn to: as, to cock the head; to cock the eye at a person; to cock the brim of a hat; the horse cocked up his ears.
  19. cock
    To hold up the head; look big, pert, or domineering.
  20. cock
    The act of turning up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way, as the head or a hat; the position of anything thus placed.
  21. cock
    A particular shape given to a hat, especially by turning up and fastening the brim.
  22. cock
    One of the flaps or parts of a hat turned up. See flap.
  23. (n) cock
    A small conical pile of hay, so shaped for shedding rain; a haycock.
  24. cock
    In hay-making, to put into cocks or piles.
  25. (n) cock
    A small boat; a cockboat; a skiff.
  26. (n) cock
    A nock or notch, especially that in the butt-end of an arrow, or on the stock of a crossbow, which receives or retains the string.
  27. cock
    To fight; contend.
  28. (n) cock
    Fight.
  29. cock
    A variant of calk.
  30. (n) cock
    A cockle.
  31. cock
    To pamper; cocker.
  32. (n) cock
    Scarlet.
  33. (n) cock
    A perversion of or substitution for the word God, occurring in oaths, such as “(By) cock's body” (bones, wounds, nouns, etc.), “by cock and pye,” etc. Compare gog in similar use.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Cock
    kok the male of birds, particularly of the domestic fowl: the time of cock-crowing: a weathercock: a plucky chap, a term of familiarity, as 'Old cock:' a strutting chief or leader: anything set erect: a tap for liquor: part of the lock of a gun, held back by a spring, which, when released by the trigger, produces the discharge
  2. (v.t) Cock
    to set erect or upright: to set up, as the hat: to draw back the cock of a gun: to turn up to one side: to tilt up knowingly, inquiringly, or scornfully
  3. (v.i) Cock
    to strut: to swagger
  4. (adj) Cock
    prancing, proud
  5. (adv) Cock
    properly a-cock-horse = on cock-horse, on horseback: exultingly
  6. (n) Cock
    kok a small pile of hay
  7. (n) Cock
    kok (Shak.) a cock-boat. Now Cock-boat.
  8. Cock
    perversion of the word God
Quotations
Heinrich Heine
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
Heinrich Heine
George Santayana
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
George Santayana
Socrates
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Socrates
It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
Scottish Proverb
The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
Margaret Thatcher
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Publilius Syrus
Idioms

Cock a snook - To make a rude gesture by putting one thumb to the nose with the fingers outstretched.

Cock and bull story - A cock and bull story is a lie someone tells that is completely unbelievable.

Cock in the henhouse - This is used to describe a male in an all-female environment.

Cock of the walk - A man who is excessively confident and thinks he's better than other people is the cock of the walk.

Knock into a cocked hat - If you knock something or someone into a cocked hat, you are much better.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Of. coque, F. coche, a small vessel, L. concha, muscle shell, a vessel. See Coach, and cf. Cog a small boat

Usage in the news

N In Cocke County, the historic Wolf Creek Bridge on US 25/70 over the French Broad River is closed to through traffic due to a bridge rehabilitation project. knoxnews.com

"Arf a cock linnet" is cockney rhyming slang for "half a minute". austinchronicle.com

Each snapping shrimp has one oversized claw that cocks open while a muscle inside the claw pulls taut like the spring of a mousetrap. nytimes.com

* There are nebbishes and cranks and control freaks and neurotics and even — we hear — some people who could be described as Total Cocks. nymag.com

Does Adelitas Way get within one win of entering the Rock Cock hall of fame or does Taproot end their run. therockstation99x.com

Felisha Chase cocked an ear. vgazette.com

Drunk people aren't quitters though, just check out this cocked British dude fight the current. banana1015.com

It's gives new meaning to "rock out with you cock out". q103albany.com

Except, this time, he's joined by AARP-eligible colleagues Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis in a waxworks tableau of retro explosions, cigar toasts, and cock-rock anthems. villagevoice.com

A well-timed sip of wine with eyebrows cocked. minnesota.publicradio.org

A rooster's 'cock-a-doodle-do' trumpets across the misty green hills and hollows of White Oak Farm. vgazette.com

Roger Reynolds displays a cock/male wood duck shot October 2009. northcountrynow.com

Police find cocked and loaded handgun in pocket of older youth. columbian.com

Almost 70 years later, Cocke now being treated for PTSD. bedfordbulletin.com

It's certainly not over-over, but with the passage of the Dec 4 nudity ban , anyone sans clothing in San Francisco has either been cock-blocked or declared a vagina non grata. sfweekly.com

Usage in scientific papers

Klein, G., Elphinstone, K., Heiser, G., Andronick, J., Cock, D., Derrin, P., Elkaduwe, D., Engelhardt, K., Kolanski, R., Norrish, M., Sewell, T., Tuch, H., Winwood, S.: seL4: Formal verification of an OS kernel.
A Wiki for Mizar: Motivation, Considerations, and Initial Prototype

Usage in literature

Then a great number of cocks that were pecking about the place came running and began to pick up the corn. "Tales of Folk and Fairies" by Katharine Pyle

A vane index with pointers to tell the changes of the wind without referring to the weather-cock. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

Natt's eyes were a shade hazy at the moment, but he was cock-sure of what he saw. "A Son of Hagar" by Sir Hall Caine

As the auld cock craws the young cock learns. "The Proverbs of Scotland" by Alexander Hislop

And immediately a cock crowed. "The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." by Various

The Rich Man cocked his head on one side. "Fairy Prince and Other Stories" by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib. "What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales" by Hans Christian Andersen

The cock closes one eye, and is lost in meditation. "Jewish Children" by Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich

No, the yard cock is really a cock! "Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen" by Hans Christian Andersen

The education of their cocks costs both much pains, often more than that of their sons. "An Eagle Flight" by José Rizal

Usage in poetry
Tum-ti-tum,
Ti-tum-tum-tum!
The turkey-cock's tail
Spreads to the sun.
"Ploughing On Sunday" by Wallace Stevens Author object (679)
I have a gentil cock
croweth me day
he doth me risen early
my matins for to stay
"I Have A Gentil Cock" by Anonymous British
The white cock's tail
Streams to the moon.
Water in the fields.
The wind pours down.
"Ploughing On Sunday" by Wallace Stevens Author object (679)
I have a gentil cock
comen he is of great
his comb is of red coral
his tail is of jet
"I Have A Gentil Cock" by Anonymous British
The white cock's tail
Tosses in the wind.
The turkey-cock's tail
Glitters in the sun.
"Ploughing On Sunday" by Wallace Stevens Author object (679)
Early when cocks do crow
Ere the stars dwindle,
Down to the hearth I go,
Fire must I kindle.
"The Forsaken Maiden" by Eduard Morike Author object (161)