noun The male of any other bird, particularly of the gallinaceous kind: in this use especially in composition, as in peacock, turkey-cock, cockrobin, cock-sparrow, etc.noun The male of the domestic fowl specifically, a male chicken one year old or older, one less than a year old being properly called a cockerel.To hold up the head look big, pert, or domineering.To turn up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way give a pert, knowing, or inquiring turn to: as, to cock the head to cock the eye at a person to cock the brim of a hat the horse cocked up his ears.noun A nock or notch, especially that in the butt-end of an arrow, or on the stock of a crossbow, which receives or retains the string.In hay-making, to put into cocks or piles.One of the flaps or parts of a hat turned up.A particular shape given to a hat, especially by turning up and fastening the brim.The act of turning up or to one side in a jaunty or significant way, as the head or a hat the position of anything thus placed.noun A small conical pile of hay, so shaped for shedding rain a haycock.To set cocks to fighting, or to train them for fighting.To raise or draw back the cock or hammer of (a gun or pistol), as a preliminary to firing: as, he cocked his rifle.idiom ( cock of the walk) An overbearing or domineering person.transitive verb To raise in preparation to throw or hit.transitive verb To tilt or turn up or to one side, usually in a jaunty or alert manner.transitive verb To set (a device, such as a camera shutter) in a position ready for use.transitive verb To set the hammer of (a firearm) in a position ready for firing.noun Archaic The characteristic cry of a rooster early in the morning.noun A man or boy regarded as mean or contemptible.noun The position of the hammer of a firearm when ready for firing.noun A faucet or valve by which the flow of a liquid or gas can be regulated.noun A weathervane shaped like a rooster a weathercock.noun An adult male of various other birds.transitive verb To arrange (straw or hay) into piles shaped like cones.noun A cone-shaped pile of straw or hay.
From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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