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Example sentences for: cock

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

Anglo-Saxon provided - kin , as in Will-kin and Tom-kin , whence Wilkins and Tompkins ; and - cock , as in Will-cock , whence Wilcox .
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 ).
One may be indulged a giggle even though he is sure that Isak Dinesen did not intend an impropriety when she recorded in Out of Africa (Part V, Chapter 4) how “Fathima's big white cock came strutting up before me.”
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.