cock2 (kok)

[ You see many a smart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands, moulding it into several different cocks . Add is on . cock I observed a young fellow with a tolerable periwig, had it not been covered with a hat that was shaped in the Ramillie cock . Add is on, Country Fashions. 3 One of the flaps or parts of a hat turned up. See flap. cock3 (kok), п. [Perhaps Scand.: cf. Dan. kok (Wedgwood), a heap, pile, = Sw. koka, a clod of earth, = Icel. kökkr, a lump, a ball; cf. also G. dial. kocke, a heap of hay. Perhaps in part a var. of cop1 = cob2, a haycock: see cob2. Hence prob. the dim. coggle3.] A small conical pile of hay, so shaped for shedding rain; a haycock. cock3 (kok), v. t. [ to put into cocks or piles. IMG:content-0715.jpg:[ocr errors] cock+ (kok), n. [Early mod. E. also cocke; ME. * cok (only in comp. cokboot, cockboat), also in the form cog (after LG. or Scand.), = OHG. kocho, MHG. kocke, kucke, G. kocke (also with alteration, MLG. kogge, koghe, LG. kogge = MD. kogghe, D. kog = Icel. kuggr, mod. kuggi = OSw. kogger, Sw. dial. kåg, kåk = Dan. kogge, kaag, > ME. cogge, mod. E. cog1, q. v.), It. conca = Sp. Pg. concha = F. coque, a shell, the hull of a ship: see conch, and cf. cockle2.] A small boat; a cockboat; a skiff. Yond tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock , a buoy Almost too small for sight. Shak ., Lear, iv. 6.