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377 words match “COCK”

COCKET a. 4 definitions
Pert; saucy. [Obs.] Halliwell.
COCKEYE n. 2 definitions
The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
COCKFIGHT n.
A match or contest of gamecocks.
COCKFIGHTING n. 2 definitions
The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.
COCKHEAD n.
The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.
COCKHORSE n. 4 definitions
A child's rocking-horse. Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. Mother Goose.
COCKIELEEKIE n.
Same as Cockaleekie.
COCKING n.
Cockfighting. Ben Jonson.
COCKLE n. 9 definitions
A cockleshell.
COCKLEBUR n.
A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.
COCKLED a. 2 definitions
Inclosed in a shell. The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.
COCKLER n.
One who takes and sells cockles.
COCKLESHELL n. 2 definitions
One of the shells or valves of a cockle.
COCKLOFT n.
An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.
COCKMASTER n.
One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.
COCKMATCH n.
A cockfight.
COCKNEY n. 3 definitions
An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.
COCKNEYDOM n.
The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively. Thackeray.
COCKNEYFY v.
To form with the manners or character of a cockney. [Colloq.]
COCKNEYISH a.
Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.
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