Cocker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkɒkə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cocker is a noun meaning One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
Meaning
One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
More Meanings
- (colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
- A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
- A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
- (UK, informal) Friend, mate.
- To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
- (dated) One who hunts woodcocks.
- (obsolete) A quiver.
Example Sentences
The standard default cocking mechanism is the rope cocker.
The down side is that they are hard to draw without special lever cockers.
[…] shall a beardless boy, A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?
Cocker thy childe, and hee ſhall make thee afraid: play with him and he will bring thee to heauinesse.
Word Forms
- cockers
- cockering
- cockered
Synonyms for cocker
Depending on context, synonyms include friend, cosset, pamper, posset, cockfighter, indulge.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include featherbed, baby, cosset, coddle, mollycoddle, pamper.
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