English Dictionary

cock

/kɒk/

noun

A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). / A cock pigeon. / A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.

The cock crowed loudly at dawn.

意味（1）

A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).

意味（2）

A cock pigeon.

意味（3）

A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.

The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […] , from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.

意味（4）

The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.

意味（5）

(colloquial, vulgar) The penis.

Alternative form: cawk

意味（6）

(curling) The circle at the end of the rink.

意味（7）

The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.

[…] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.

意味（8）

(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptable person.

意味（9）

(Britain, derogatory, slang, chiefly uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.

The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he work on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be a cock, which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.

意味（10）

(slang, Britain, Tasmania) A man; a fellow, especially as a term of address.

All right, cock?

意味（11）

A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.

意味（12）

(informal) Shuttlecock.

意味（13）

A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!

意味（14）

(dated, often humorous) A chief person; a leader or master, or (formerly, now obsolete) a leading thing.

The contrarye [side of a die] to this... was called Venus, or Cous, and yt was cocke, the beste that might be cast.

意味（15）

The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.

This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock;

意味（16）

A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.

意味（17）

The style or gnomon of a sundial.

Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.

意味（18）

The indicator of a balance.

The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.

意味（19）

The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw