Cocking can be categorized as a verb.
Adjective |
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| cocking - Offensive or worthless. | ||
Verb |
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| cock - set the trigger of a firearm back for firing | ||
| cock - tilt or slant to one side; "cock one's head" | ||
| 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" | ||
Noun |
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| cocking - cockfighting. |
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| 1. | verb | "No clue?" asked Holmes, cocking his eye at the Colonel. | |
| 2. | verb | "Now, choose,” he said, drawing his sword with the right hand, and, with the left, by the same motion taking a pistol from his belt and cocking it, but turning the point of one weapon and the muzzle of the other to the ground. | |
| 3. | verb | Cock one's head. | |
| 4. | verb | "Sit down on a tussock, cock your ears at the sky, dial out the bedlam of meadowlarks and redwings, and soon you may hear it: the flight of the upland plover, just now back from the Argentine." |
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| "No clue?" asked Holmes, cocking his eye at the Colonel. | |
| "Now, choose,” he said, drawing his sword with the right hand, and, with the left, by the same motion taking a pistol from his belt and cocking it, but turning the point of one weapon and the muzzle of the other to the ground. | |
| Cock one's head. |
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| "Sit down on a tussock, cock your ears at the sky, dial out the bedlam of meadowlarks and redwings, and soon you may hear it: the flight of the upland plover, just now back from the Argentine." |
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