Cock water

( Mining.) Among English miners, a stream of water brought into a trough to wash away the sand from tin-ore. Cocles, (ko'klees,) HORATIUS, a hero of ancient Rome, who alone, in 506 B. c., opposed the whole army of Porsenna at the head of a bridge, while his companions were destroying it behind him. When this was effected, C .. though wounded by the darts of the enemy, and impeded by his arms and armor, leaped into the Tiber, and swam safely acro . IMG:content-0248.png:[blocks in formation] "Show'rs soon drench the camlet's cockled grain." - Gay. -v. i. To a ume a wrinkled or ridgy form; as, a cockling sea.