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Definition of Recocking
1. recock [v] - See also: recock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recocking
Literary usage of Recocking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naval Ordnance: A Text-book Prepared for the Use of the Midshipmen of the by Roland Irvin Curtin, Thomas Lee Johnson, United States Naval Academy (1915)
"(6) Pull firing-pin case (Fj) out to the rear. (7) To disassemble firing-mechanism,
take out recocking-hook pin (Fp) on rear end of firing-pin (F-1), ..."
2. Songs and Stories from Tennessee by John Trotwood Moore (1902)
"(holding it up, cocking and recocking it with a most puzzled look on his face).
" She'peers—to—click—pow'ful —ku'is—to me." "Yes, Sam," said the Colonel, ..."
3. Electrical Engineer (1890)
"... an instantaneous electrically worked disjunc- tor, which does not require
recocking and which can readily be adjusted to any requisite speed of break, ..."
4. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"... labor is entailed by spreading the cocks each favorable morning and recocking
in the evening until cured. While the difficulty of thus curing grass hay ..."
5. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Where the drying is long protracted, much additional labor is entailed by spreading
the cocks each favorable morning and recocking in the evening until ..."
6. The Military Dictionary (1987)
"... is planned for the express purpose of rearming, recocking, and resumption of
armed alert, overseas deployment, or conducting further combat missions. ..."
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