Cock Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

A cock is:

• a male bird (a female is a "hen").
  • in particular a male chicken ("rooster or cockerel" if under one year old). Cockfighting is a sport in which two male chickens are made to fight one another. The word rooster for a male chicken arose, especially in the USA, as a euphemism for cock, to avoid the vulgarism below for penis.

• a vulgarism for the penis

• a type of tap, faucet or valve.
  • Steam cock, is a drain valve on a steam engine cylinder.
  • Bib cock, a small type of valve.
  • Sample cock, small valve fitted in brewerys and other process industries to check the product during manufacture.
  • Stop cock to turn off the mains supply of water to a house.
  • Petcock, a small valve, primarily for draining liquid or releasing pressure from a vessel.

• a part of a clock or watch used to support an outrigger bearing for a gear or lever.
  • Balance cock, supports the balance wheel in a watch.
  • Fly cock, supports the fly on a bracket clock.

• a state of the hammer in a firearm. A gun may be "cocked" in readiness for firing. Origin of the term "going off at half cock" or "going off half cocked" which result in a mis-fire.

Cock has several other meanings: see

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