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Cocking
- verb - set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
- tilt or slant to one side; "cock one's head"
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
Cockled
- verb - stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
Cockler
- - One who takes and sells cockles.
Cockles
- noun - common edible European bivalve
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- corn cockles are also a wildflower that often grows in cornfields
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
Cockney
- adjective - a native of the east end of London
- characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect; "cockney vowels"
- relating to or resembling a cockney; "Cockney street urchins"
- the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
Cockpit
- noun - a pit for cockfights
- compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft
- seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car
Cockshy
- - A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in
Cockups
- noun - something badly botched or muddled
Coconut
- noun - large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
- tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
- the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries
- the large oval brown seed of a tropical palm, consisting of a hard woody husk surrounded by fibre, lined with edible white flesh and containing a clear liquid.
Cocoons
- noun - retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment; "Families cocoon around the T.V. set most evenings"; "She loves to stay at home and cocoon"
- silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs
- wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection