Usually means: Preparing or setting mechanism to fire.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word cocking:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. cocking: Merriam-Webster
  2. cocking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cocking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cocking, cocking: Wordnik
  5. cocking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cocking: Wiktionary
  7. Cocking, cocking: Dictionary.com
  8. cocking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Cocking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Cocking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. cocking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Cocking: Rhymezone
  13. Cocking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cocking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. cocking: FreeDictionary.org
  16. Cocking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cocking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cocking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cocking: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cocking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cocking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cocking)

▸ noun:  (archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Cockfighting.
▸ adjective:  (vulgar) offensive or worthless
▸ noun:  A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8717).
▸ noun:  A habitational surname from Old English.

Similar:
rooster, ruffle, Peter, pecker, dick, prick, shaft, tool, prance, turncock, more...

Types:
hammer, bolt, lever, pump, break, more...

Phrases:
cocking a snook, cocking up, cocking ear, cocking eye, self cocking, more...

Adjectives:
late, early, self, slight, manual, abrupt, noble, perpetual, quick, nervous, fierce



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Similar:
rooster, ruffle, Peter, pecker, dick, prick, shaft, tool, prance, turncock, more...

Types:
hammer, bolt, lever, pump, break, more...

Phrases:
cocking a snook, cocking up, cocking ear, cocking eye, self cocking, Cocking handle, cocking a gun, cocking an arrow, gun cocking, cocking head, more...

Adjectives:
late, early, self, slight, manual, abrupt, noble, perpetual, quick, nervous, fierce



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