Cock

(noun.) adult male bird.

(noun.) adult male chicken.

(noun.) obscene terms for penis.

(verb.) set the trigger of a firearm back for firing.

(verb.) tilt or slant to one side; 'cock one's head'.

整理:威廉

• Yes, but not on the cock. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As if it were Cock Robin, the hero of the ballad, and Mr Venus were the sparrow with his bow and arrow, and Mr Wegg were the fly with his little eye. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When the gas cock is closed, the mercury stands at the same level in both arms, but when the cock is opened, the gas whose pressure is being measured forces the mercury up the opposite arm. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I have been looking at the weather-cock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The cock, being curved like a snake, was called the serpentine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Of course, you all know _The Cock_ at Sutton? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It is Lestrade's little cock-a-doodle of victory, Holmes answered, with a bitter smile. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Mr. Bumble wiped from his forehead the perspiration which his walk had engendered, glanced complacently at the cocked hat, and smiled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Oliver made a bow, which was divided between the beadle on the chair, and the cocked hat on the table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Pablo pulled and let go as the man had told him and the block snapped forward into place and the pistol was cocked with the hammer back. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• With this hurried adjuration, he cocked his blunderbuss, and stood on the offensive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Mr Venus knowingly cocked his shock of hair, as rather thinking Mr Wegg had remembered himself, in respect of appearing without any disguise. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A well-bred servant, in a cocked hat and dashing livery entered my room, with many bows. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I lay them ready cocked on a chair by my bedside at night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• No one had ever carried the hay away and the four seasons that had passed had flattened the cocks and made the hay worthless. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• From tropic to the bleakest north, the cocks crow before the advancing margin of dawn. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gauge cocks to indicate the height of water, and a safety valve to regulate the pressure of steam, were employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• You're like one of those cocks in the pit where nobody has seen the wound given and it doesn't show and he is already going cold with it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• This hides the hammers in the breech and cocks them by the act of breaking down the gun. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• HIS breakfast hour was half-past six--and HE went to bed with the cocks and hens! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He struck out with his hand, and a revolver which the younger man was in the act of cocking clattered down upon the floor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Only a slight pressure on the trigger is necessary, as it is not required to perform the work of turning any other part by the trigger, as is the case in the self-cocking revolver. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He was deliberately cocking his pistol, and, in the momentary silence that followed George's speech, he fired at him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He then stopped as though waiting for my reply, pricking up his antennae-like ears and cocking his strange-looking eyes still further toward me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

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