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cocker

noun
/ˈkɒkə/UK/ˈkɑkəɹ/US

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird. * Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher. * The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”).

  1. derived from *kökexür✻ — “leather vessel for liquids”
  2. inherited from *kukur✻
  3. inherited from cocer
  4. inherited from coker

Definitions

  1. One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.

  2. One who hunts woodcocks.

  3. A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.

      • You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device.
      • The down side is that they are hard to draw without special lever cockers.
      • The standard default cocking mechanism is the rope cocker.

    2. A rustic high shoe

      A rustic high shoe; half-boot.

    3. A quiver.

    4. Friend, mate.

      • I been to see 'im. Not pretty. Ward sister tell me 'e'll be alright but not for a while yet. Concussion. Bloody 'ell! Lucky 'e wasn't killed, lump of lead like that. Lucky for you too, cocker...
      • He said, 'Not my cup of Darjeeling, cocker. I've been more intellectually challenged at a kiddies' swimming gala.'

    5. To make a nestle-cock of

      To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).

      • […] shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?
      • Cocker thy childe, and hee ſhall make thee afraid: play with him and he will bring thee to heauinesse.
      • But if you was to ask your ma, she would tell you that poor folks can no ways afford to cocker themselves up as lying-in ladies do.

    6. A surname.

    7. A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.

    8. A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA