A rustic high shoe; half-boot. / (obsolete) A quiver.

(UK, informal) Friend, mate.

To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).

One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting. / (dated) One who hunts woodcocks. / (colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.

plural of cocker

present participle of cocker

simple past tense and past participle of cocker

A surname. / A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth. / A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.

To indulge (someone); to bolster, encourage (a person, feeling etc.).

(dated, colloquial, Britain, idiomatic) Done properly, correctly and reliably; in accordance with proper procedure and established rules.