cock

The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […] , from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.

Alternative form: cawk

[…] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.

The running patterer cares less than other street-sellers for bad weather, for if he "work" on a wet and gloomy evening, and if the work be "a cock," which is a fictitious statement or even a pretended fictitious statement, there is the less chance of any one detecting the ruse.

All right, cock?

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow! / You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout / Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!

The contrarye [side of a die] to this... was called Venus, or Cous, and yt was cocke, the beste that might be cast.

This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock;

As spawning time approaches – autumn or very early winter in most rivers, though in some late-run streams salmon may spawn as late as January or February – the hen's colouration becomes first a matt-pewter and then a drab dark brown-grey. The cock fish, in contrast, begins to gain some brighter colours.

Sun-dials, when the shadow of the Cock by passing over the lines of the hours[…]show the stay of the time sliding by.

The cock, or pointer, which makes a right angle with the beam, will stand upright when the weighing is accurate.

A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw