noun
A cone-shaped pile of straw or hay.
transitive verb
cocked, cock·ing, cocks To arrange (straw or hay) into piles shaped like cones.
Origin of cock
Middle English
cok
Noun (plural cocks)
- A male bird, especially a domestic fowl.
- Male chicken or other gallinaceous bird.
- Male pigeon.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- (UK, New Zealand, pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
- (informal, UK, Tasmania) An informal term of address.
- All right, cock?
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat
- (informal) shuttlecock
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- (dated, humorous) A chief man; a leader or master.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- The indicator of a balance.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
Verb (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked)
- (intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm; to prepare (a gun) to be fired.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
- To erect; to turn up.
- (UK, slang) To copulate with.
- To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- He cocked his hat jauntily.
- (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
- (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
Interjection - (slang) Expression of annoyance.
Origin From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin.
Noun (plural cocks)
- A small conical pile of hay.
- The farmhands stack the hay into cocks
Verb (third-person singular simple present cocks, present participle cocking, simple past and past participle cocked)
- To form into piles.
Origin From Middle English cock, cok, from Old English -cocc (attested in place names), from Old Norse kǫkkr (“lump”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *geugh- (“swelling”). Cognate with Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).
Noun (plural cocks)
- Short for cock-boat, a type of small boat.
Origin from Old French coque (“a type of small boat”), from child-talk coco 'egg'
Proper noun - (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
