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Spit Curl :: Spitchcocked (a.) Broiled or fried after being split lengthwise; -- said of eels.

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A large haycock.

Cocket :: Cocket (n.) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.

Bibb :: Bibb (n.) A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3..

Cockshy :: Cockshy (n.) 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 shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks..

Cockleshell :: Cockleshell (n.) One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

Stormcock :: Stormcock (n.) The fieldfare.

Harl :: Harl (n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies..

Woodcock :: Woodcock (n.) Fig.: A simpleton.

Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.

Sea Cock :: Sea cock () A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini)..

Poultry :: Poultry (n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese..

Thorn :: Thorn (n.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn..

Trail :: Trail (n.) The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep..

Earcockle :: Earcockle (n.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms..

Basilisk :: Basilisk (n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice..

Capon :: Capon (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table..

Alectryomancy :: Alectryomancy (n.) Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten..

Spar :: Spar (v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do..

Acockbill :: Acockbill (adv.) Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor..

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