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Cocker   Listen
noun
Cocker  n.  
1.
One given to cockfighting. (Obs.)
2.
(Zool.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.






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"Cocker" Quotes from Famous Books



... emotions of the car subsided, a Cocker spaniel made her appearance, squirming with affection and good-will, and offering up short barks of thanksgiving ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... the six charges by hitting the hammer smartly with the palm of his hand. In the thrusting motion of this discharge he evidently had design, for the first six wine-glasses on Billy's bar were shivered. It was wonderful work, rattling fire, quicker than a self-cocker even. He selected another weapon. From a pile of tomato-cans he took one and tossed it into the air. Before it had fallen he had perforated it twice, and as it rolled along the floor he helped its progression by four more bullets which left streams ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White



Words linked to "Cocker" :   cosset, baby, cocker spaniel, mollycoddle, spoil, pamper, featherbed



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