Words similar to cock

Example sentences for: cock

How can you use “cock” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Second, a clue may name a class of objects which includes the answer, like bird for COCK.
Phalaenopsis amabilis , the lovable moth-resembling orchid, or Trichocentrum orthoplectron , the hairy-spurred cock's spur orchid (another binomial that tries to say it twice).
go off half cocked Muzzleloaders, then as now, had a half cock, or safety position, for a gun's hammer that partially back-locked the trigger mechanism so that the weapon could not be fired.
A cock and bull story, for example, derives from ancient fables and medieval bestiaries in which cocks moralized, bulls expostulated, and a menagerie of other animals discoursed in human language.
A clue for COCK might thus come to read: number one in the pecking order dominates hens and crows (a quizzical statement, unless the word crows is read as a verb) or even: creature with a cow's head and a bullock's rump found in a coop (first letter of cow plus last three letters of bullock ).