cock (n.)
- anemometer
- anthill
- baloney
- bank
- biddy
- bilge
- billy
- boar
- bosh
- boss
- broiler
- brooder
- buck
- bull
- bullock
- bung
- bunghole
- bunkum
- capital
- capon
- charge
- chick
- chicken
- chief
- chieftain
- cockerel
- cork
- crap
- discharge
- dog
- dominant
- drake
- drift
- drop
- duck
- duckling
- dune
- eject
- embankment
- entire
- faucet
- fell
- fire
- fowl
- fryer
- gander
- gate
- gobbler
- goose
- gosling
- guff
- gun
- hart
- haycock
- haymow
- hayrick
- haystack
- he-goat
- head
- headman
- heap
- hen
- hierarch
- hill
- hit
- hokum
- honcho
- hydrant
- lapse
- leader
- lid
- load
- main
- major
- mass
- master
- molehill
- mound
- mountain
- mow
- peacock
- peg
- pelt
- pepper
- petcock
- pile
- pin
- pistol
- plug
- pontificate
- pot
- potshot
- poultry
- prime
- principal
- pullet
- pyramid
- ram
- regress
- relapse
- return
- rick
- riddle
- roaster
- rooster
- rot
- ruck
- set
- shock
- shoot
- snipe
- snowdrift
- spigot
- spike
- spile
- spill
- stack
- stag
- stallion
- steer
- stop
- stopcock
- stopgap
- stopper
- stopple
- strike
- stud
- studhorse
- swagger
- swank
- swell
- tap
- tom
- tomcat
- torpedo
- tup
- turkey
- valve
- valvula
- valvule
- vane
- weathercock
- wether
- wind
cock (v.)
- backslide
- bank
- bilge
- bosh
- boss
- buck
- bull
- bung
- charge
- cork
- crap
- detonate
- discharge
- dog
- drift
- drop
- duck
- eject
- fell
- fire
- fowl
- gate
- goose
- gun
- hart
- head
- heap
- hen
- hill
- hit
- lapse
- lid
- load
- main
- major
- mass
- master
- mound
- mow
- peg
- pelt
- pepper
- pile
- pin
- plug
- pontificate
- pot
- prime
- pyramid
- ram
- recede
- recidivate
- regress
- relapse
- retroflex
- retrograde
- retrogress
- return
- revert
- rick
- riddle
- rot
- ruck
- set
- shock
- shoot
- snipe
- spike
- spill
- stack
- stag
- steer
- stop
- stopper
- stopple
- strike
- stud
- swagger
- swank
- swell
- tap
- tom
- torpedo
- tup
- turkey
- wind
The early village cock
Hath twice done salutation to the morn.
Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
It faded on the crowing of the cock.
Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, "This is a cock."
