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:

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.
This even holds for the generic cock, hen, and chick .
To over-simplify the process, when the lock is moved to full cock, the trigger, a simple lever, moves another lever, the sear , out of the notch in a semi-circular internal lock part to which the hammer is connected.
An alternative translation, according to a second group of reports, is "the cock whose prowess leaves no hen untouched."
The farmyard cock is so called for its clucks, as illustrated by Chaucer in The Nun's Priest's Tale, in which Chanticleer cryde anon, cok, cok.