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plural cockers
One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting. examples
(dated) One who hunts woodcocks. examples
(colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks. examples
A device that aids in cocking a crossbow. quotations examples
You have your choice of two stock-mounted cocking aids: the Acudraw 50, an integral rope cocker, or the Acudraw crank-operated device.
2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 62
The down side is that they are hard to draw without special lever cockers.
2011, Ritchie R. Moorhead, The Kid Looks Back-Short Stories & Tall Tales, page 48
The standard default cocking mechanism is the rope cocker.
2013, Todd A. Kuhn, Shooter's Bible Guide to Bowhunting
A rustic high shoe; half-boot. examples
(obsolete) A quiver.
(UK, informal) Friend, mate. quotations examples
I been to see 'im. Not pretty. Ward sister tell me 'e'll be alright but not for a while yet. Concussion. Bloody 'ell! Lucky 'e wasn't killed, lump of lead like that. Lucky for you too, cocker...
1993, Arnold Wesker, Bluey
He said, 'Not my cup of Darjeeling, cocker. I've been more intellectually challenged at a kiddies' swimming gala.'
2004, Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction, page 361
third-person singular simple present cockers, present participle cockering, simple past and past participle cockered
(particularly of children) . quotations examples
[…] shall a beardless boy,A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […] ?
c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, act V, scene 1
Cocker thy childe, and hee ſhall make thee afraid: play with him and he will bring thee to heauinesse.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Ecclesiasticus 30:9
But if you was to ask your ma, she would tell you that poor folks can no ways afford to cocker themselves up as lying-in ladies do.
1879, Jean Ingelow, chapter 1, in Sarah De Berenger, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 6