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:

Thus, in modern parlance, when a person goes off half cocked (or at half cock ), he or she is not in control of the situation.
The rest of the time he's a preening cock, fond of quoting (without irony) a rapturous critic: "I'm meee -rac-ulous."
An alternative translation, according to a second group of reports, is "the cock whose prowess leaves no hen untouched."
This feature has already been demonstrated in the very first example (the cock that crows) and also in clue F. Clue J offers two further instances: at first reading, changed is suggestive of being a past tense but after analysis it is identified as a past participle (serving as an anagram flag); likewise, quarterly shifts from adverb to noun.
The hammer, or cock , of the gunlock usually can be in one of three positions: down (fully forward and down); at half cock (partly back, to allow a flintlock to be carried with the pan closed or the percussion cap to be placed on the nipple of a percussion arm); or at full cock . In the half cock position, the trigger is not “partially back-locked,” whatever that means.