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cock 1 (the foll. senses occur each once)
1. weather-cock Lr. III. ii. 3.
2. spout or pipe to let out liquor, tap (in fig. phrase) Tim. II. ii. 172*.
3. in fire-arms, part of the mechanism for discharging the piece H5 II. i. 55.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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