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Cocking
To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
📖 Definitions of "Cocking"
verb
- 1
To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- 2
To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
"In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly."
- 3
To erect; to turn up.
- 4
To copulate with.
verb
- 1
To form into piles.
noun
- 1
The hunting of gamecocks.
- 2
Cockfighting.
adjective
- 1
Offensive or worthless
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