Cocking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COCKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• COCK, to tilt to one side
• tilt (something) in a particular direction
• bend a (limb or joint) at an angle
• (of a male dog) lift (a back leg) in order to urinate
• raise the cock of (a gun) in order to make it ready for firing
• ruin something as a result of incompetence or inefficiency
• pile (hay or other material) into cocks
NOUN:
• a male bird, especially of a domestic fowl.
• used in names of birds, especially game birds, e.g. watercock.
• a male lobster, crab, or salmon
• a friendly form of address among men
• nonsense
• a firing lever in a gun which can be raised to be released by the trigger.
• a stopcock.
• a small pile of hay, straw, or other material, with vertical sides and a rounded top
• Cockfighting.
• a man's penis.

Words related to COCKING

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How to use COCKING in a sentence

• Then, cocking the gun, he cautiously raised himself to one knee.
• Cocking his gun, he tried to pierce the jungle, not fully decided whether the noise were made by man or beast.
• The forefinger should be clear of the trigger when cocking the pistol.
• Some men have difficulty at first in cocking the pistol with the right thumb.
• Cocking his rifle, the young hunter sprang through the bushes towards his horse, and was just in time to save a Banattee Indian from being strangled by the dog.
• Cocking my revolver, I called to Gerome, and was answered by a volley of oaths, while another riderless horse galloped past me and disappeared in the darkness.
• As she jerked it down, throwing a shell into the chamber and cocking the weapon, Duane leaped upon her.
• He looked up, half shutting his one funny eye, and cocking one ear up, and letting the other droop down.
• Three or four sulphur matches were scratched at the same moment on trousers made tight by cocking the knee up.
• He was cocking up his grey moustaches at either end and curling them into his eyes, and strutting out with his sound leg as proud as a piper.
• Durnford House, built for him by the nation, is still standing, and at Cocking Causeway is a monument to his memory.
• Canby, but cocking the pistol again shot him through the right eye.
• Quick as lightning he pulled out one of his pistols, and, cocking it, held himself in readiness.
• Lloyd whistled to him, and instantly he answered, cocking his head sideways.
• And cocking her little reddish eye Tourtourelle saw a brilliant Jay hopping in the branches, imitating a Dove.
• Now the Blackbird hopped on and on for a long, long way, until, by cocking his eye, he saw that Madame Fox had finished her dinner.
• A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle.
• Sponge then mounted his hack, and cocking out his toe, rode off at a canter.
• He seized the other pistol, and cocking it, fixed himself upon the spot from whence he was to fire.
• Cocking his gun, he laid it across his knees, and waited there motionless, imitating the yelp of a turkey the while.
• Roger moved in, cocking his fist for the left hook and Tom was ready for him.
• Trigger guard in the hollow of the shoulder, tip of forefinger touching the cocking piece.
• Jimmie Dale turned a leaf in his notebook and began to sketch rapidly, cocking his head now on one side now on the other.
• My dogs seemed to have comprehended the gravity of my mission, and crouched close to my feet, cocking their ears at the slightest sound.
• Down below was the little village of Cocking, and half-way up the hill, a mile perhaps to the right, hung a flock of sheep grazing together.
• I reached for my gun, and as it clicked in cocking, he began raking my legs, sharpening his claws and growling like a tiger.
• He then halted, and silently cocking a pistol, remained for some time motionless as a statue.
• D’Artagnan felt inclined for an instant to pursue Master Friquet, but not wishing to leave Raoul alone he contented himself with taking a pistol from the holster and cocking it.
• Cocking once had a cell belonging to the Abbey of Seez in Normandy but of this nothing remains.
• Moreover he had observed that the ass, a four-legged thinker little understood by men, has a habit of cocking his ears uneasily when philosophers talk nonsense.

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