cock
noun
[ kɒk ]
• a male bird, especially of a domestic fowl.
• a man's penis.
• nonsense.
• "that's all a lot of cock"
• a firing lever in a gun which can be raised to be released by the trigger.
• a stopcock.
cock
verb
• tilt (something) in a particular direction.
• "she cocked her head slightly to one side"
Similar:
tilt,
tip,
angle,
lean,
slope,
bank,
slant,
incline,
pitch,
dip,
cant,
bevel,
camber,
heel,
careen,
put at an angle,
• raise the cock of (a gun) in order to make it ready for firing.
• "he took the loaded pistol from his belt and cocked it"
• ruin something as a result of incompetence or inefficiency.
• "the party cocked up the Euro-elections"
Origin:
Old English cocc, from medieval Latin coccus ; reinforced in Middle English by Old French coq .
cock
noun
• a small pile of hay, straw, or other material, with vertical sides and a rounded top.
• "we perched on a half-built cock of hay"
cock
verb
• pile (hay or other material) into cocks.
• "it does not rake the grass into rows, nor cock it"
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian kok ‘heap, lump’, Danish kok ‘haycock’, and Swedish koka ‘clod’.
