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Definition of Cocking
1. n. Cockfighting.
Definition of Cocking
1. Verb. (present participle of cock) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cocking
1. cock [v] - See also: cock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocking
Literary usage of Cocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A Catalogue of the Writings, Both Manuscript and by George Clement Boase, William Prideaux Courtney (1882)
"Provisional specification [only] of JT cocking, of Pen- zance, hat manufacturer
... Letters patent to JT cocking...for "Improvements in splints and in the ..."
2. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1894)
"4 —cocking v. WARD, (c. P. 1845.) RULE. WHERE a contract which, ... cocking T.
Ward. 15 LJCP 245 (8. c. 1 CB 858). Assumpsit The first count of the ..."
3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1837)
"Gye and Hughes will pay to the said Robert cocking the sum of 307. ; and the said
Robert cocking binds himself to make descents with the parachute as often ..."
4. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1872)
"The case of cocking v. Fraser is discussed in all the elementary works, and in
many of the reported cases. It is said that it never was an authority on the ..."
5. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1837)
"Gye and Hughes will pay to the »aid Robert cocking the sum of 30/. ; and the said
Robert cocking binds himself to make descent with the parachute as often ..."
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