cock6t

i. [ME. cocken, cokken, fight, contend; origin obscure; appar. not connected with cock1, n. Cf. cock1, v., II.] To fight; contend. He wole grennen [ grin , snarl], cocken and chiden. Old Eng . Miscellany , p. 2138. Lord that lenest us lyf.. For to cocke with knyf nast [ne hast] thou none nede. Political Songs (ed. Wright), p. 15. Mon that syth [in a dream] briddes cokkynde , Of wrath the that is toknynge. Rel. Antiq ., I. 262. cock6t, n. [ME. cocke ; from the verb.] Fight. Mi hende at cocke , mi fingres at fight [ manus me as ad prælium , et digitos meos ad bellum , Vulg.]. Ps. cxliii. (cxliv.) 1 (ME. version).