Cock

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html

COCK, sb.1 Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng.

1. In comb. (1) Cock-a-bendy, a sprightly boy; (2) Cock-a-breekie, a person of small stature; (3) Cock-a-dore, to play the master or lord it over another in a bullying way, see (39); (4) Cock-a-hoop, a bumper; intoxicated; (5) Cock-a-lilty, in a merry mood; (6) Cock-aloft, high up; conceited, puffed up; (7) Cock-apentie, one whose pride makes him live above his income; (8) Cock-apparel, obs., great pomp or pride in small matters; (9) Cock-a-reedle, a boys' game; see below; (10) Cock-a-ride-a-roosie, a person who is perched or perked up unduly; (11) Cock-battle, a game of football played at Shrovetide; (12) Cock-battler, (a) a children's game; see below; (b) the nut that cracks another in the game of ‘cock-haw’ (q.v.); (13) Cock-bird height, (a) of a height equal to that of a male chicken; (b) fig. elevation of spirits; (14) Cock-brained, weak, silly, flighty; (15) Cock-bread, a mixture of hard boiled eggs, &c., with which game cocks are fed; (16) Cock-bree or Cock-broo, chicken-broth; (17) Cock-chafer, the treadmill; (18) Cock-chick, a young cock; (19) Cock's-clothes, best, Sunday clothes; (20) Cock's-comb, a small cutting blade projecting; vertically from the share of a ‘sull’ or plough, and serving the purpose of a coulter; (21) Cock-crow'n-kail, broth heated a second time; (22) Cock-crow-land, superior croft-land; (23) Cock-dyke, see Cock-gard; (24) Cock('s-egg, a small egg without a yoke; an abortive or wind egg; (25) Cock's-eye, a halo that appears round the moon in certain states of the atmosphere; (26) Cock-fait, a cock-fight; (27) Cock-farthing, a term of endearment used to a little boy; (28) Cock-fight, a boys' game; see below; (29) Cock-footed, having the feet turned in; (30) Cock-gard, a mode of hedging; (31) Cock-haw, a boys' game, see below; cf. cobnut, conker, sb.1; (32) Cock-head, (a) the top part of the spindle which carries the upper millstone in a flour-mill; (b) pl. large flakes of curd sometimes formed in the process of cheese-making; (33) Cock-headed, vain, conceited, whimsical; (34) Cock-hedge, a trimmed thorn or quickset hedge; (35) Cock-kibbit or Cock-kippit, a sport practised on Good Friday; see below; (36) Cock-laird, a small landowner who cultivates his own land; a yeoman; (37) Cock-lake, a spot frequented by grouse; (38) Cock-ma-dendy, (39) Cock-ma-do or Cock-door, a conceited, self-important person; a bully; (40) Cock-main, a contest in which several pairs of cocks were matched against each other; (41) Cock-mantle, to crow over, bully, domineer; (42) Cock-marrall, see Cock-ma-door; (43) Cock-master, the owner of a game cock; (44) Cock-me-dainty, one who is showily dressed; a pert young man or girl; (45) Cock-melder, the last ‘melder’ or grinding of a year's grain; (46) Cock's-neckling, head foremost; (47) Cock's-nests, the nests so often built and then deserted by the wren; (48) Cock's-Odin or Cock's-hoddin, a boys' game of ‘hide and seek’; (49) Cock-pickit, pecked or dabbled in by poultry; (50) Cock-pit, a species of apple; (51) Cock-raw, sparingly roasted or boiled; (52) Cock-road, a passage in a wood through which woodcocks fly and are caught; see Cock-shut, sb.1; (53) Cock-Robin, the reflection of the sun from a pail of water, &c.; cf. cat washing dishes; (54) Cock-shot, (55) Cock-shy, anything set up as a mark at which to throw stones, &c.; (56) Cock's-skip, see Cock-stride (b); (57) Cock-squailing or Cock-squoiling, obs., throwing at cocks at Shrovetide; (58) Cock-steddling, obs., a boys' game; (59) Cock-stick, (a) a stick thicker and heavier at one end, used at the sport of cock-throwing; (b) gingerbread used at Shrovetide; (60) Cock-stride or Cock-strut, (a) a short stride, small distance; (b) fig. used of the lengthening of the days; (c) a boys' game, see below; (61) Cock-tail, of beer: fresh, foaming; (62) Cock-throw, see Cock-shy; (63) Cock-throwing, a sport in which the cock was tied to a stick, and missiles thrown at it; (64) Cock's tread, (65) Cock-treading, (66) Cock-treddle, the embryo or nucleus in an egg; (67) Cock-walk, (a) the farmyard or place where a cock was kept to be trained and prepared for fighting; (b) a fine or blackmail levied on a man who courts a woman residing out of the limits of his own parish. (1) Lth. Rise, cocky bendies! Smith Merry Bridal (1866) 16. Dmf. (Jam.) (2) Bnff.1 Applied commonly to the male sex. (3) Lei.1 (4) Fif. One who is half seas over is said to be cock-a-hoop (Jam.). (5) Cum.1 (6) w.Yks.3 (7) Sc. As soon as thai cocka-penties gat a wee swatch o' their parlavoo harrangs, they yokit the tauking to ane anither like the gentles, Edb. Mag. (Apr. 1821) 351 (Jam.). (8) Lin. Vox agro Linc. usitatissima, Magna Pompa, Magnus Fastus, in parva re, Skinner (1671); Coles (1679); Bailey (1721); Obs. (R.E.C.); Lin.1 (9) s.Not. One boy takes his stand in the horse-road of a street; the other players run across from causey to causey, he attempting to catch them. Also called Willie Waucey (J.P.K.). (10) Nhb.1 (11) Wm. These juvenile competitors contended in a match at football and fought a cock-battle, called the captain's battle, Manners, Kendal Chron. (1812). (12, a) Cor. Children often in country walks play with the hoary plantain, which they hold by the tough stem about two inches from the head; each in turn tries to knock off the head of his opponent's flower, Flk-Lore Jrn. V. 61, in Gomme Games (1894) 73. (b) Cor.1 (13, a) Sc. It's a fell thing for you to gie yoursel sic airs; ye're no cock-bird hight yet (Jam.). (b) Sc. I fin' my spirits a' cou'd caper Maist cock-bird hight, Macaulay Poems, 181 (JAM.). (14) n.Lin.1 (15) N.I.1 Wm. He meaad breead for cocks... an licked lile Tom for bricken a bit oth cock breead, Wheeler Dial. (1790) 14, ed.
2. (16) Sc. They... may hae some judgment in cock-bree, Scott St. Ronan (1824) iii. Lnk. And gave him some good cock-broo, Ramsay Tea-Table Misc. (1724) I. 100, ed. 1871. (17) Lon. He ‘expiated’ this offence by three months' exercise on the ‘cockchafer,’ Mayhew Lond. Labour (1851) II. 51, ed. 1861. (18) n.Cy. (Hall.) Lan. A cock-chicken with a single kom, Waugh Birthplace Bobbin (1858) i. (19) Dev. He wore his cock-clothes at the sale, w. Times (Mar. 26, 1886) 6, col. 4. (20) nw.Dev.1 (21) Rxb. Supposed to be such as the cock has crow'd over, being a day old (Jam.). (22, 23) Cum.1 (24) n.Yks. (I.W.) w.Yks.2 Some say that cocks lay these small eggs, but farmers' wives say that hens lay them when they are about to give over laying. Chs.1, s.Chs.1, n.Lin.1 War.3 Eggs with only the inner covering or skin, and without shell. ne.Wor. (J.W.P.), Shr.1 Oxf.1 MS. add. e.An.1 Sus., Hmp. Holloway. Wil.1 (25) Bnff.1 Considered by fishermen as a sign of stormy weather. Cor.3 (26) Shr. I know a man as had a cock for cock-fait, Burne Flk-Lore (1883) xiv. (27) e.An.1 (28) Nai. Two boys fold their arms, and then, hopping on one leg, butt each other with their shoulders till one lets down his leg, Gomme Games (1894) 73. (29) Hmp. (W.M.E.F.) (30) Cum.1 The same as Stower and yedder, Steàkk and ryse. (31) Cor.1 One boy takes off his cap, saying, ‘Cock-haw! first blaw! Up hat, down cap. Victor.’ His opponent lays his nut, holding it by the string, on the cap. The first boy strikes it with his nut. Should he fail to crack it, the other boy places his down, and so on until the nut is broken. The nut that cracks the other is called a ‘cock-battler.’ If another nut can be cracked with the same nut, it is called a ‘two-cock-battler,’ and so on; Cor.2 (32, a) Shr.1 (b) s.Chs.1 Kok·-yedz. (33) Sc. Mackay. (34) n.Dev. Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) Gl. Cor.1 Sometimes double for drying clothes on; Cor.2 (35) nw.Dev.1 A cock is placed underneath an inverted cloamen milk-pan, and cudgels (called kibbits) are thrown at the pan from a fixed distance until it is broken. The cock is then chased, and becomes the joint property of its captor and the person who broke the pan. It has been revived at Hartland recently, and now forms the most popular Good Friday sport. (36) Sc. You breed of water kail and cock lairds, you need mickle service, Kelly Prov. (1721) 362. e.Fif. Only dochter o' a certain cock-laird, Latto Tam Bodkin (1864) ii. Knr. Destruction to the cock-laird race, Haliburton Ochil Idylls (1891) 15. Slk. Ae puir fallow, a cock-laird, Chr. North Noctes (ed. 1856) II. 352. (37) w.Yks. Lucas Stud. Nidderdale (c. 1882) 173. (38) Nhb.1 n.Yks. He's sike a cockmadandy I ev no patience wi him (W.H.). (39) Yks. A cockmadoor te ivviry wun he dusna fear, Fetherston T. Goorkrodger (1870) 111. e.Yks.1 n.Lin.1 That theäre cock-ma-do weänt craw so lood when he's as ohd as you an' me. (40) Lakel. Ellwood (1895). (41) Cum. I'll larn thee to cockmantle, Stagg Misc. Poems (ed. 1807). (42) Lin.1 (43) Shr. You cock-masters all, both far and near, I will tell you of a cocking, when and where, Burne Flk-Lore (1883) 562. (44) N.Cy.1, Cum.1, n.Yks.2 (45) Lnk. As this ‘melder’ contains more refuse than any other it may be thus denominated because a larger share of it is allowed to the dunghill fowls (Jam.). (46) Wil. Grose (1790); Wil.1 To come down cock's-neckling; obs. (47) Wil.1 (48) Sc. Cock's-Odin was another form of ‘hide and seek,’ universally common throughout the Sc. Lowlands, N. & Q. (1868) 4th S. ii. 165. (49) Ayr. ‘Get your purritch.... The gucks [ducks] are paidlin' up to their knees in them!’... ‘Wha would sup cock-pickit purritch?’ Service Notandums (1890) 111. (50) n.Yks. The most abundant sort of apple (I.W.). n.Lin.1 (51) Lth., Rxb. (Jam.) (52) Cor. Grose (1790) MS. add. (S.) [The passages through which the birds flew were known by the name of ‘cockroads’ and ‘cockshoots,’ Johns Birds (1862) 441.] (53) n.Yks. Also called Jack-a-making-pancakes (I.W.). (54) N.I.1 Wil.1 There's a skug [squirrel] ─ let's have a cock-shot at him with your squailer. (55) Brks.1 Taayke a cock shy. [A kind of informal fair on the village green with cockshies, swings, &c., Jefferies Hdgrow. (1889) 163.] (56) e.Cy. N. & Q. (1879) 5th S. xi. 296. (57) Hmp.1 Wil. I have seen the poor unfledged nestlings of small birds stuck upon a gate-post and thrown at by countrymen, Britton Beauties (1825); Wil.1 Obs. Som. Flinging sticks at a cock tied by the leg, one penny per throw, whoever kills him takes him away, W. & J. Gl. (1873); Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825). (58) Hmp. Portsmouth Telegraph (Sept. 27, 1813) in Hmp.1 (59, a) Ir. We'll have fine sport! I have cocksticks enough, Carleton Traits Peas. (1843) I. 359. (b) Chs. I have heard it said that the gingerbread called ‘cocksticks’ was later, and in more humane days, used instead of the cock, hence the name, Chs. N. & Q. (1881) I. 60. (60, a) Wm. (B.K.) w.Yks.5 Here he comes sither! at a cockstride. n.Lin.1 It's nobbut a cock-stride fra his hoose to the carrier's. w.Som.1 Lord Popham is said to be coming ‘handier’ to the town by a cockstride every year. (b) Slk. Afore yon sun were twa cockstrides down the west, Hogg Perils of Man (1822) II. 236 (Jam.). N.I.1 About oul’ New Year's Day, the days is a cock-sthride longer. n.Yks. (I.W.) e.Yks.1 Used only in reference to the lengthening of days in early spring, when it is said, ‘days is a cock-sthraayde langer noo.’ w.Yks.2, Chs.1, s.Chs.1 Der.1 At Twelfth-night, days are lengthened by a cock's stride. Glo.1 From Christmas-tide to New 'us tide, The days do get a cock's stride. (c) Abd. One boy is chosen as cock. He is blindfolded, and stands with his legs as far apart as possible. The other boys then throw their caps as far as they are able between the extended legs of the cock.... After each boy has taken his stand beside his cap, the cock, still blindfolded, stoops down and crawls in search of the caps. The boy whose cap he first finds has to run about 20 yards under the buffetings of the other boys, the blows being directed chiefly at his head, Gomme Games (1894) 73. (61) w.Yks.2 (62) s.Ir. (P.W.J.) (63) Lan. Shrovetide was anciently a great time for cock-throwing and cock-fighting, Harland & Wilkinson Flk-Lore (1867) 217. Mid. The custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday is still [1791] retained at Heston, in a field near the church, Brand Pop. Antiq. (ed. 1849) I. 77. (64) e.An.1 (65) nw.Dev.1 From a MS. Note-book, 1665: ‘Take the whitts of eggs,... take out the cock-treadings.’ (66) n.Lin.1 (67, a) Lakel. Ellwood (1895). Cum.1 (b) w.Yks. In Bradfield a man who courts a woman residing out of his own parish is still expected to pay the fine called cockwalk, Addy Vill. in Gent. Mag. (July 1889) 40; w.Yks.2 n.Der. Addy Gl.
3. Comb. in plant-names: (1) Cock-bramble or Cock-brumble, (a) the hawk's-bill bramble, Rubus fruticosus; (b) the wild rose, Rosa canina, on which roses are grafted; (2) Cock's-caim, the cuckoo-flower or meadow-pink, Lychnis Flos-cuculi; (3) Cock's-comb, (a) the adder's tongue, Ophioglossum vulgatum; (b) the red eye-bright, Bartsia Odontites; (c) the common yellow-rattle, Rhinanthus Crista-Galli; (4) Cock-drink or Cock-drunks, the berries of the mountain ash, Pyrus Aucuparia; (5) Cock-fighters, the seed-stems of Plantago lanceolata; (6) Cock-flowers, the early purple orchis, Orchis mascula; (7) Cock's-foot grass, the Dactylis glomerata; (8) Cock-grass, (a) the ribwort plantain, Plantago lanceolata; (b) the oat-grass, wild oat, Bromus mollis, Bromus secalinus; (9) Cock-head, (a) the all-heal or woundwort, Stachys palustris; (b) the common knob-weed, Centaurea nigra; (10) Cock's-head, see Cock-grass (a); (11) Cock's kames, (a) see Cock-flowers; (b) the marsh orchis, Orchis latifolia; (12) Cock-robin, the red campion, Lychnis diurna; (13) Cock-rose, (a) the scarlet poppy, Papaver Rhoeas; (b) the gall on the wild rose, Rosa canina; also called Canker, Gipsy-rose; (14) Cock-sorrel, the common sorrel, Rumex Acetosa; (15) Cock-spire, see Cock's-foot; (16) Cock-stule, a fungus, a toadstool; (17) Cock-and-hens, (a) see Cock-grass (a); (b) the water avens, Geum rivale; (c) the leaf-buds of Acer Pseudo-platanus. (1, a) e.An.1, Nrf.1, Suf. (F.H.) (b) Suf. (F.H.) (2) Lnk. (Jam.) (3, a) Rxb. One of the bulbs of the root is supposed to resemble the comb of a cock; and, if sewed in any part of the dress of a young woman, without her knowledge, will, it is believed, make her follow the man who put it there (Jam.). (b) w.Yks. Lees Flora (1888) 343. (c) Shr.1 The country folk consider that when the seeds of this plant rattle in their capsules it is time to mow the hay-grass. (4) Lakel. The name explains the superstitious idea connected with it. sw.Cum. (5) Nhb., Dur., Cum. Cum.1 Used by boys in play. (6) Hmp. (7) n.Yks. Nrf. A field that had some cocksfoot grass in it, Marshall Review (1811) III. 392. [The substitution of 2 lbs. of Dactylis glomerata, the common rough cock's foot, Stephens Farm Bk. (ed. 1849) I. 614.] (8, a) w.Som.1 The only name used by farmers for this the commonest variety of the plantains. n.Dev. Cowslop an' cock-grass, Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 122. (b) Cmb. (9, a) Lnk. From some supposed resemblance of its flowers to the head of a cock (Jam.). (b) n.Cy. Midl. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) II. (10) e.An.1 Nrf. Cozens-Hardy Broad Nrf. (1893) 101. w.Sus. Boys play with these heads; one holds a stalk in his hand, while another, with a similar stalk, strikes his opponent, and whichever loses the head first is conquered. It is called ‘fighting cocks,’ Holloway. (11) Nhb.1 The early orchis is variously called Cocks-kames and Deed man's thumb, and the marsh orchis has the several titles of Cocks-kames, De'il's foot, Deed men's fingers, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel. (12) Dev.4 The common name in n.Dev. Cor. (13, a) Sc. Any wild poppy with a red flower, but most commonly the long smooth-headed poppy (Jam.). ne.Yks.1 A rarer form is Cuprose. (b) n.Lin.1 (14) Yks. (15) Cmb. An herb or grass by [the farmers] called cockspire [cocksfoot], which is said to produce a relaxation of the shoulder in sheep. Cocksfoot is Dactylis glomarata, L., but possibly some other plant is here meant, Reports Agric. (1793-1813). (16) n.Yks.3 (17, a) Wtf., Nhb.1, Dev.4 (b) Nhb. Nature Notes, No. 9; Nhb.1 (c) n.Cy.
4. Comb. in the names of birds, fishes, &c.: (1) Cock-ban(d, a sticklebat, Gasterosteus trachurus; (2) Cock-chick, a species of minnow; see below; (3) Cock-clock, the cockchafer, Melolontha vulgaris; (4) Cock-felt, the fieldfare, Turdus pilaris; (5) Cock-fiery, a species of minnow; (6) Cock-hoop, the male bullfinch, Pyrrhula europaea; also called Hoop (q.v.); (7) Cock-horny-bug, see Cock-clock; (8) Cock-menner, see Cock-ban(d; (9) Cock-paddle, the lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus; (10) Cock-winder, the wigeon, Mareca penelope; (11) Cock of the North, (a) the brambling, Fringilla montifringilla; (b) the snow bunting, Plectrophanes nivalis. (1) Glo. (H.S.H.); Glo.1 (2) w.Som.1 The cock-chick is marked with gold on the belly, and bright red under the fins. It is the same in size as an ordinary minnow. (3) n.Yks.2 Sometimes called Egg-clocks, as being oviform and hard-cased. (4) Nhp. Swainson Birds (1885) 5. (5) Dev. What sport? ─ Only two, one of them a real cock-fiery, though, Stooke Not Exactly iv. (6) Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). (7) Suf. (M.E.R.); (C.G.B.); e.An. Dy. Times (1892). (8) Lan. (G.E.D.) (9) Sc. A bannock-fluke and a cock-padle, Scott Antiquary (1816) xi. Sh.&Ork.1 (10) Nrf. Swainson Birds (1885) 154. (11, a) e.Sc. & s.Sc. SWAINSON Birds 64. (b) Nhb.1 The winter immigrant bird, the snowflake, is called Cock of the North, and over-sea linnet.
5. In phr. (1) Cock and farthing, a child's game; (2) Cock and mwile, a jail, prison; (3) Cock-a-pert, a saucy fellow; (4) Cock-a-roora-koo, the sound of cockcrowing; (5) Cock-in-breeches, gingerbread made into the shape of a bird; (6) Cock of the clod, (7) Cock of the midden, (8) Cock of the roost, (9) Cock of the walk, the master or chief of the house; bully, presuming person; (10) Cock of the North, a facetious name for Newcastle; (11) Cock of my thumb, a diminutive, small person; (12) to cast at the cocks, fig. to waste, squander; (13) to have not a cock left to crow, to be destitute, poverty-stricken; (14) that cock won't fight, that will not answer, ‘wash’; (15) to have heard the old cock crow, see below; (16) a good cock may come out of a ragged bag, Prov.; (17) first cock spit over a finger, see below; (18) that beats cock-fighting, used of anything very surprising, either good or bad. (1) s.Wil. A dapster, too, at cock an varden, Slow Rhymes, 5th S. 16. (2) Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873); Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825). (3) I.W.1 (4) Elg. Madam's cock is crowing with all his might; I love to hear his cock-a-roora-koo, Tester Poems (1865) 9. (5) Lon. The principal, and sometimes the only, toy gingerbread that is vended is the ‘cock in breeches’; formidable-looking bird, with his nether garments of gold, Mayhew Lond. Labour (1851) I. 200. (6) n.Lan. He war... a noted feighter, ─ th' cock o' th' clod in his day, Waugh Rambles Lake Cy. (1861) iii. (7) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2, e.Yks.1 w.Yks. A woman an' dowter thowt a bein cocks at middin, Dewsbre Olm. (Oct. 4, 1865) 14; Iz t'kok ə t'midin (J.W.); w.Yks.1; w.Yks.5 Of two disputants, one ‘clēan cam ower t'other, an' now he's cock-o't-middin.’ n.Lin.1 (8) Brks.1 (9) Wm. (B.K.) (10) Nhb.1 (11) w.Yks.1 (12) Lnk. Sair have we pelted been with stocks, Casting our money at the cocks, Ramsay Poems (1800) I. 330 (Jam.). (13) Abd. To ha'd their clients i' the law ‘Till they're nae left a cock to craw, Shirrefs Poems (1790) 249. (14) Sc. You write! that cock won't fight, you won't, Scott St. Ronan (1824) iv. (15) n.Lin.1 ‘He's heärd the ohd cock craw,’ said of children who repeat sentences or opinions which they have picked up from their fathers. (16) Shr. ‘There'll come a good cock out of a ragged bag.’ A cockfighting simile, used by a farmer, whose buildings were out of repair, but his stock in good condition, Burne Flk-Lore (1883) 590. (17) s.Lan. When we had a threap [dispute] at marble playing when I went to school it was always first cock spit o'er a finger an' hit t'other a knock to set us agate a feightin' (S.W.). (18) Sc. That beats cock-fechtin', Wilson Tales (1836) II. 168. Shr. Burne Flk-Lore (1883) 598.
6. The woodcock, Scolopax rusticula. War.3 Wor. Almost all classes in the country, when speaking of woodcocks, scarcely ever use the prefix, Allies Antiq. (1852)
7. Dev. Ee'd kill'd a sight o' cocks, Pulman Sketches (1842) 35, ed. 1853. [Swainson Birds (1885) 189.]
8. A brisk, smart fellow; a familiar term of address. Sc. Such a canty hearty cock o' a landlord too, Wilson Tales (1836) II. 290. Elg. Cheer up, my cocks, yer spirits rouse, Tester Poems (1865) 97. Abd. Thae auld cocks sae crack'd awa', Shirrefs Poems (1790) 218. Per. The Auld Beggar Man as a hearty auld cock, Nicol Poems (1843) 143. Knr. Wi'bannet lairds, The cocks o' the creation, Haliburton Ochil Idylls (1891) 147. Rnf. A bilsher wee red-headed cock Just like thysel', Webster Rhymes (1835) 110. Ayr. Gie him't het, my hearty cocks, Burns Author's Cry (1786) st.
9. Lnk. A guid-natur'd hearty auld cock, Thomson Musings (1881)
10. w.Yks. Iz ə kok ət ðat (J.W.). e.An.2 ‘A shy cock,’ an idle lad; ‘an old cock,’ a gay old man. Suf.1 I sah cock ─ where ar yeow a gooen? Ah yah, cock ─ I e'ent afeard o' yeow natha. Slang. The jolly old cock Of a Germanised giant, Barham Ingoldsby (ed. 1864) Lay of St. Odille.
11. pl. A name given to var. plants: (1) the tufted heads of the ribwort plantain, Plantago lanceolata; see also Cock-fighters; (2) Plantago major; (3) the field woodrush, Luzula campestris; (4) the seeds of the corn-cockle, Centaurea Cyanus. (1) Ir. (A.S.P.) N.I.1 Children amuse themselves in summer with knocking off the heads of each other's cocks. ne.Lan.1 Dur., Chs., Nhp., Shr., Suf., Sus. Cor.3 (2) Suf. (3) Dwn. Known at Belfast as ‘a kind of cocks,’ no doubt from the superficial resemblance of its black heads to those of Plantago lanceolata. (4) Cor.3
12. pl. A children's game, played with the heads of the ribwort plantain. Also called Cock-battler (q.v.). N.Cy.1, Suf.1
13. A striped snail-shell, the shell of the large land-snail. See Cogger. Nhb.1 Those of a grey colour are called hens, the others are called cocks. When emptied of the snails, boys ‘fight’ the ‘chucks’ by squeezing them together until one breaks the other. After a successful encounter a ‘cock chuck’ is said to be ‘one year aad,’ and if he remains unbroken after a second ‘battle,’‘ two year aad’; and so on, a year being added each time. Lei.1 Used in the game of fighting-cocks, which is played by pressing the points or noses of two snail-shells together till one of them breaks. Nhp.1 (s.v. Cogger). They call them ‘cocks’ and so they fight, Clare MS. Poems.
14. A boys' game. See below. Nai. One boy is chosen cock. The players arrange themselves in a line along one side of the playground. The cock takes his stand in front of the players.... A rush across the playground is made by the players. The cock tries to catch and ‘croon’ ─ i.e. put his hand on the head of ─ as many of the players as he can.... When a boy was being pursued... his great object was to save his head from being touched on the crown. Also called Rexa-boxa-King, Gomme Games (1894) 73.
15. The mark for which curlers play, the ‘tee.’ Sc. The stone which reaches as far as the mark is said to be cock-hight (Jam.); The folk that was playing at the curling, and... auld Jock Stevenson that was at the cock, Scott Guy M. (1815) xxxii. Ayr. When to the lough the curlers flock... Wha will they station at the cock? Burns Tam Samson (1787) st. 4. Hence Cockee, sb. the place at each end of the rink or course to and from which the stones are hurled. Kcb. Glenbuck upon the cockee stood, Davidson Seasons (1789)
16. [1. (14) Escervelé, brain-sick, cock-brain'd, heady, giddy, COTGR. (52) Thou hast thy cockrood, and thy glade To take the precious phesant made, Herrick Hesp. (1648) 247 (DAV.). (60, b) It is now February, and the Sun is gotten up a cocke-stride of his climbing, Breton Fantast. (1626) (DAV.). (63) A cock's tread [in an egg], Galaxias, Coles (1679). 2. (3, c) Cp. MLG. hanenkam, ‘centrum galli’ (Schiller-Lübben). (9) Trainiere, common trefoil, cockheads, COTGR. 4. (4) Your cockapert pride, Heywood Spider & Flie (1556) 93 (Nares). 6. He was an honest old cock, and loved his pipe as well as the best of us, Graves Sp. Quixote (1773) bk. VIII. xxiv (DAV.).]

COCK, v.1 and sb.2 Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. Also in form (?) koik Lan. I. 1. v. To crow, make the sound made by a cock or cock pheasant; esp. in phr. to cock-crow. Gen. used fig. Hrf. Duna be so uncommon quick to coc over a feler agen (Coll. L.L.B.). Oxf. Dwunt bē in sich a gallopin urrē to cok-crō over a boddē agen, Why John (Coll. L.L.B.). w.Som.1 Dùd-n ee yuur·n kauk·een? [Did you not hear him cocking?] You'll vind one in thick there little copse, I year'd 'n cockin s'mornin. Hence Cocking, vbl. sb. the call of a cock pheasant. w.Som.1 2. To swagger, strut, show off, put on airs of importance. Sc. What needs ye sit cockit up there, Scott Midlothian (1818) xviii. Fif. Had Bellarmine been sittin' cockin In Anster Kirk, he'd gat a yokin'... that wou'd hae cow'd his croakin, Tennant Papistry (1827) 8. Gall. You to sit cockin' there, Crockett Sunbonnet (1895) xvi. Wm. Ah'll net hev thee cockin ower me (B.K.). Hence (1) Cocked up, phr. conceited; (2) Cocking, ppl. adj. brisk, pert, domineering. (1) N.I.1 (2) Wm.&Cum.1 Fix fause hair upo' their cockin crowns, 119. w.Yks.1 A little cockin fellow. e.Lan.1 3. Of a child: to walk lightly or nimbly about. w.Yks.1 II. 1. To hold erect, prick up, esp. to cock the lugs, neb, &c. Elg. Ye'd seen a niz cockt like your ain, Couper Tourifications (1803) II. 203. Kcd. If I did cock my auld grey tail, Jamie Muse (1844) 58. Per. Ye needna cock yir nose in the air, Ian Maclaren Brier Bush (1895) 189. Frf. James... Primes, loads again, and cocks his e'e, Sands Poems (1833) 86. Rnf. Let fam'd Dunfermline cock her crest, Webster Rhymes (1835) 150. Ayr. But, Willie, set your fit to mine, An' cock your crest, Burns To W. Simpson (May 1785) st. 9. Lnk. Just like a wee conceited flunkie He cock'd his head, Lemon St. Mungo (1844) 74. Edb. Na town-bred spark, nor country laird, Need cock their nose, McDowall Poems (1839) 117. Nhb. He to the kirk wad cock his croon Amang the best, Strang Earth Fiend (1892) 2; Nhb.1 Cum.3 She cocks up her chin an' says, ‘M'appen I may!’ 37. n.Yks. He wad cock his lugs, Burnett Broad Yks. (1885) 43. w.Yks.5 Cocks his head as if awal t'street wur his awan. Hence Cockit, ppl. adj. turned up, raised, pricked up. Rnf. His specks astride his cockit neb, Young Pictures (1865) 153. Lth. Cockit luggies, curly Lang tail, Lumsden Sheep-head (1892) 59. Slk. Of noses... Mine's, I ken, 's a cockit ane, Chr. North Noctes (ed. 1856) III. 150. 2. In phr. (1) to cock one's cap at, to make love to, ‘set one's cap at’; (2) cock the clogs, to die, ‘turn up the toes’; (3) cock the fud, to be in good spirits; (4) cock the little or wee finger, to be fond of drinking, perpetually tippling; (5) cock the thumbs, to dance; (6) cock up the toes, see cock the clogs. (1) w.Yks. Sally Toardoff at cocked her cap at a Scotchman, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 32; (S.K.C.) (2) w.Yks. Ahr owd chap... cocked his clogs a bit sin, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 37; (J.T.); (S.P.U.) (3) Sc. The fud is the hare's or rabbit's tail or brush; and a hare cocks his fud, or erects his little tail, when he is in good spirits, N. & Q. (1857) 2nd S. iii. 519. Ayr. Ye maukins, cock your fud fu' braw, Withouten dread, Burns Tam Samson (1787) st. 7. (4) Rnf. Some say that she cocks her wee finger, In short, that she's gien to the drink, Barr Poems (1861) 107. Chs.1 Jim Goold's gone at last, and what could ye expect; he wur sadly too fond o' cockin his little finger. (5) Nhb. (W.G.) (6) n.Yks. He's cock't iz teeas at last (W.H.). w.Yks. When t'time comes to cock up thi tooas, Bickerdike Beacon Alm. (1875). 3. To raise, turn up the face, &c.; to lift up in a threatening manner. e.Sc. Wha's he cockin' his nieve at? Setoun Sunshine (1895) 304. Fif. They... cock't their fists in fearfu' clenches, Tennant Papistry (1827) 7. Edb. I've cock'd up my sooty face, Forbes Poems (1812) 56. e.Yks.1 Cock up thy chin. Lan. Cock up thy jib, an' let's have another smeautch, Brierley Irkdale (1865) 119, ed. 1868. 4. To hold up, raise on end; to tilt. Gen. with up. n.Yks. He cock't up his finger (I.W.). w.Yks.5 Cock it up an' let's luke ar it. Lan. Th' stoo' [i.e. stool] ut I're stondin on (?) koikt o'er an' leet me down, Brierley Fratchingtons (1868) 2. s.Not. Ye want to cock the end o' the scythe up a bit (J.P.K.). s.Lin. Put y'r left foot into the stirrup, and cock y'r other leg into the saddle, and off ye go (T.H.R.). 5. Comp. (1) Cock-spur, a small piece of baked pottery used for separating the ware as placed in the ‘seggar’; (2) Cock-throw, a three-legged piece of wood used to support the shafts of a cart when the horses are taken out. (1) Yks., Stf. Cockspurs are of different forms and sizes. They are gen. triangular, coming to a fine point, the main quality being that they should support the ware with as little contact as possible (F.K.). (2) w.Yks.2 6. To stick the hat jauntily on one side of the head. Sc. Gives his beaver a brush and cocks it in the face of all creation, Scott Nigel (1822) xxxvii. Abd. Cock up your bonnet, Aberdeen, Cadenhead Bon-Accord (1853) 144. Ayr. Cock up your beaver, Cock up your beaver, Burns. w.Yks. (J.T.) Colloq. Each cocks fierce his hat, Fielding Wks. (1784) III. 20. Hence (1) Cockit hat, phr. a hat with the brim turned up on one side; (2) Cockup, sb. a hat or cap turned up in front. (1) Fif. His cockit-hat... He clap't upon his roseat hair, Tennant Papistry (1827) 42. Ayr. They had a cockit hat to croon a', Service Notandums (1890) 78. Lnk. I've now got a braw cockit hat, Rodger Poems (c. 1838) 7, ed. 1897. Dmb. As for the cockit hat I'm no verra shure aboot it eithereens, Cross Disruption (ed. 1877) xiv. Kcb. The Laird he cam' doon in his best cockit hat, Armstrong Ingleside (1890) 156. (2) Sc. An awfu' warning about your cockups and your fallal duds, Scott Midlothian (1818) xxv; I see my own daughter in the kirk even now have as high a cockup as any of you all, Kirkston Hist. Biog. XIX. (Jam.) 7. To mount a culprit on the back of another, in order to flog him. Sc. (Jam.); Mackay; Old Scottish schoolmasters chastised idle and refractory schoolboys on the seat of honour, and in order to a convenient flagellation thereon, they mounted the offender on the back of another.... The culprit was then said to ‘cock.’... The offending youth... commonly sought to conceal himself.... The schoolmaster on these occasions of flight, caused all the boys in the school to search for the fugitive: hence the origin of ‘Cock hoddin,’ the cock in hiding, or ‘Cock's-Odin’ (q.v.), N. & Q. (1868) 4th S. ii. 165. Hence (1) Cock-a-linty, adv. carelessly balanced on the shoulders; (2) Cock's headling, phr. a boys' game in which one mounts on another's shoulders; (3) To ride cock-a-legs, (4) ride cockawinie, (5) ride cockstride, (6) ride cocky-neck, phr. to ride on the shoulders of another; (7) To get or sit a-cock, phr. to sit or ride astride on the top of anything. (1) Cum. Girt geggins at they carry cock-a-linty atop eh ther shooders, Sargisson Joe Scoap (1881) 224. (2) Sus., Hmp. Holloway. (3) w.Yks.1 (4) Dmf. (Jam.) (5) e.Lan.1 (6) Wm. Let's ride a cocky-neck (B.K.). (7) Glo., Dev. Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.) 8. To throw up anything to a high place, whence it cannot be easily taken down. Abd. (Jam.) 9. To sit bashfully and unobserved. Cum. Ah cockt on im me seat adoot takken mickle nwotish eh what war gaan forret, Sargisson Joe Scoap (1881) 163; Cum.1 Laal Dicky sat cockan i' t'neùk Takkan t'in, ey, as suer as a gun, Old Sng. 10. To miss, make a false ‘shot.’ Abd. Used by boys in playing at marbles (Jam.). 11. To go back from an engagement; to eat one's words. Rxb. (Jam.) Gall. ‘Hen’ is also used sometimes in the same sense (A.W.). 12. sb. An upward turn, a tilt. Also used attrib. Sc. With a knowing cock of his eye, Scott St. Ronan (1824) iii. Frf. The cock o' his auld-farrant snout, Smart Rhymes (1834) 119. Edb. With gleg een, a cock nose, white locks, Moir Mansie Wauch (1828) xi. Lan. Hoo mut don hursel in o' kock op bonnit wi posies, Ormerod Felley fro' Rachde (1851) i. 13. A thrust, push, a ‘lift up.’ See Cog, sb.2 3. Nhb.1 Gi's a cock up, will ye? 14. In phr. In forty cocks, out of shape. w.Cor. Your hat is in forty cocks after a week's wear. Not heard for many years, but formerly in constant use (M.A.C.); Cor.3 15. A cap, a headdress. Sc. We maun hae pearlins, and mabbies, and cocks, Chambers Sngs. (1829) I. 223. n.Sc. (Jam.)

COCK, sb.3 and v.2 Dur. Yks. Lan. Lin. Nhp. War. Brks. Bdf. Hrt. Mid. Hmp. Wil. Dor. Som. Dev. Cor. [kok.]

1. sb. A small heap of hay or corn in the field. Cf. pook. Dur.1 The grass is afterwards turned, and towards evening made into small cocks (s.v. Haymaking). e.Yks. Nicholson Flk-Sp. (1889). w.Yks. T'first cock o' hay Flays t'cuckoo away, Prov. (J.T.) e.Lan.1, War. (J.R.W.), War.3 Hrt. We carry [the new-made hay] into a barn, cock or stack, Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750). w.Mid. (W.P.M.), n.Wil. (E.H.G.) s.Wil. Barley and oat crops are forked from the swath into cocks or pooks, Marshall Review (1817) V. 220. Dor. They were already loading hay, the women raking it into cocks and windrows, and the men tossing it upon the waggon, Hardy Madding Crowd (1874) xxv. nw.Dev.1 Cor.3 Sometimes (but seldom) of hay. Hence (1) Cocket. Bdf. (J.W.B.), (2) Cocklet, sb. a small cock or stack of hay, corn, &c. n.Yks.2
2. Comp. Cock-stangs, two poles used in carrying ‘cocks’ of hay to the barn. w.Yks. (G.H.); w.Yks.2 Carried by two men like a Sedan chair; w.Yks.3, e.Lan.1
3. The top of a rick, stack, &c. Nhp.2
4. v. To put mown hay or barley into heaps. e.Lin. Very common (G.G.W.). Hrt. We cock it up into heaps, Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750). w.Mid. (W.P.M.) Brks., Hmp., Wil. I wants you to go and cock that hay up (W.H.E.). Wil. Barley and oats are always cocked. Also hay, first in foot-cocks and then dry in hay-cocks, Davis Agric. (1813). w.Som.1 This yer hay 'ont do to-night, d'an'l dead like. Come on soce! let's cock it up, t'ont take very long. Hence (1) Cocker, sb. the man who cocks or ‘coils’ up hay in a field. w.Yks.2 (2) Cocking-fork, sb. a large hayfork used for carrying hay into the summer rick; (3) Cocking-poles, sb. pl. poles used for carrying hay. Wil.1 [1. A cock, is of hay or corn laid on heaps to preserve it against the extremities of the weather, Worlidge Dict. Rust. (1681). 4. Take heede to the weather, the wind and the skie, If danger approcheth, then cock apace crie, Tusser Husb. (1580) 118.]

COCK, sb.4 Yks. Lan. Wor. Ken. Sus. [kok.]

1. A small rowing-boat, gen. in comp. Cock-boat. w.Yks. Banks Wkfld. Wds. (1865). Lan. Davies Races (1856)
2. s.Wor.1, Sus.1
3. Comp. (1) Cock-fare, a period of fishing. Sus.1 (2) Cock-heaks, the fishing-nets of a ‘cock.’ Sus.1 (3) Cock-tail, a small row-boat carried by the larger luggers, with which they communicate with other vessels. Ken. (E.R.O.) [1. Yond tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight, SHAKS. K. Lear, IV. vi. 19. OF. coque, ‘bateau, canot’ (La Curne).]

COCK, sb.5 Cum. Perversion of the word God, used in oaths and exclamations of surprise, &c. In comb. (1) Cock's dillies, (2) Cock's-dogs, (3) Cocks-fish, (4) Cock-swunters. (1) Cum.1 Cum. (2) My neighbours jeer me, and cry ‘See, cocks-dogs!’ Gilpin Pop. Poetry (1875) 56. (3) I dream'd ─ cocksfish! as seer as I'se here whick, GILPIN Pop. Poetry 58. (4) Cockswunters! min beyde about heame, Anderson Ballads (1808) 182; Cum.3 Cockswūnters! ─ what hed I forgitten? 21. [Stryke for cockes body, chargez de par Dieu, Palsgr. (1530) 739; Tell us a tale anon, for cokkes bones! CHAUCER C. T. I. 29. For illustration of this use of Cock in oaths see note to Dunbar's Poems (ed. 1893) III. 229.]

COCK, sb.6 Sc. Chs. [kok.] A projection of brickwork built out in steps to receive a piece of timber. Also called a Cock's breast. Chs.1 Hence Cock-bead-plane, sb. a plane for making a moulding which projects above the common surface of the timber. Sc. (Jam.)

COCK, sb.7 Yks. Midl. Bdf. [kok.] A piece of iron with several notches fixed at the end of the plough-beam, by which the plough is regulated. w.Yks.1 Midl. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) II. Bdf. The cock is fixed to the beam end in a horizontal position by a bolt, Batchelor Agric. (1813) 161.

COCK, sb.8 Sc. [kok.] In phr. (1) Cock and key, a stop-cock; (2) Cock and pail, spigot and faucet. (1) Sc. (Jam.) (2) Sc. Let go that water by means of a spigget and fosset, or ‘cock and pail,’ as we call it, Maxwell Sel. Trans. (1743) 344 (Jam.). Frf. Just the thing, it fits like cock and pail, Morison Poems (1790) 176.

COCK, v.3 Sc. Irel. Colon. [kok.] To indulge, pamper, spoil with over-indulgence. Gen. in phr. to cock up with. Per. Cock the like o' him wi' the best Glenlivet! Cleland Inchbracken (1883) 106, ed. 1887. Ir. To cast pearls before swine is ‘to cock them up with pearls.’ Gen. used ironically as an expletive. A priest complaining of the unruliness of his flock, somebody asked him whether he had ever tried preaching the Gospel to them, to which he responded, ‘Cock them up with the Gospel!’ (A.S.P.); Cock me up! to lie here where I've help widin call, an' poor Mick out o' rache on the road, Barlow Bogland (1892) 148, ed. 1893. Ant. Cock you up wi' it [I would like to see you getting it], Ballymena Obs. (1892). [N.Z. Lease indeed! Cock her up with a lease! why, she's only a weekly tenant, Barlow Kaipara (1888) viii.][Some cockneies with cocking are made verie fooles, Tusser Husb. (1580) 183.]

COCK, v.4 I.Ma. [kok.] Of the head after drinking to excess: to swim, buzz. I.Ma. The head goin cockin and the knees goin knicker, knocker, Brown Doctor (1887) 54.

COCK, sb.1, v.1 and adj. Var. dial. uses in Sc. and Eng.

1. sb. In comb. (1) Cock-a-lilty, a person acting or talking foolishly; (2) Cock-a-ride-a-rosie, astride a person's neck; (3) Cock-a-sheeny, proud, haughty; (4) Cock-a-winnie, see (2); (5) Cock-bird, an eccentric character; (6) Cock-bird height, infancy, youth; (7) Cock-bird high, youthful; (8) Cock-brambles, the long suckers of brambles; (9) Cock-duck, a good fellow; (10) Cock's-eye, (a) a bright opening in the sky; (b) in phr. no cocks'-eyes out yet, no great harm done as yet; (11) Cock-fleuk, the brill, Rhombus vulgaris; (12) Cock's-foot grass, the dew-grass, Dactylis glomerata; (13) Cock-hardy, the red male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus; (14) Cock-hornie, the game of ‘buck-buck,’ q.v.; (15) Cock-liggy, the loach, Cobitis barbatula; (16) Cock-loaf, obs., a loaf prepared for fighting-cocks; (17) Cock-loft, an attic, a lumber-room; (18) Cock-me-dainty, fastidious; (19) Cock-nantle, to domineer; (20) Cock-o'-crowdie, a term of commendation; (21) Cock-o'-th'-North, (a) the brambling, Fringilla montifringilla; (b) the snow bunting, Plectrophanes nivalis; (c) obs., a name given to the Dukes of Gordon; (22) Cock-o'-wax, a term of endearment for a little child; (23) Cock-penny, a gratuitous offer; (24) Cock's-stride, (a) a short distance; (b) used fig. of the lengthening of days; (c) see (2); (25) Cock-strine, see (24, b); (26) Cock-tailed horse, one with the tail rucked; (27) Cock-tails, obs., a six-oared boat used by Folkestone smugglers. (1) Cum.4 (2) Nhb. Ee used to sit cock-a-ride-a-roosy on Bell Strutt's shouthers, Graham Red Scaur (1896) 228. (3) Dev.3 I can't abide her, her's too cockasheeny to plaize me. (4) Gall. Mactaggart Encycl. (1824). (5) w.Yks. Yon's a cock-bird reight eniff (B.K.). (6, 7) Sc. (A.W.) (8) e.Suf. (F.H.) (9) s.Lan.1 (10, a) Suf. The southwolders ‘great for the cock's eye,’ Wright Fitzgerald (1904) II. 75. (b) Stf. Chronicle (Oct. 25, 1901). (11) Cum.4 (12) Sc. (A.W.) (13) Cum.4 (14) w.Mid. (W.P.M.) (15) Cum. (J.Ar.) (16) Cum.4 It was made of white flour, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, but no yeast, baked in an oven and then murled as wanted. (17) s.Lan.1 (18) Cum.4 (19) Lakel.2 Ah'll nut be cock-nantled ower wi' bits o' upstarts. (20) Dmb. A bonny cock-o'-crowdie place 'twill mak' Wi' kale before and grosets at the back, Salmon Gowodean (1868) 8. (21 a, b) Cum.4 (c) ne.Sc. (A.W.) (22) s.Lan.1 (23) Cum.4 Jefferson Hist. Allerdale (1842) 102. (24, a) Cai.1 (b) Sh.I. Ye see da day is a gude cock's stride langer, Sh. News (Feb. 19, 1898). Cum.4 When the days begin to lengthen twenty minutes or so, they say they are longer by a cock's stride. (c) s.Lan.1 (25) s.Not. It's getting lighter every day; we shall perceive it a cock's strine (J.P.K.). (26) Cum.4 (27) Ken. (P.M.)
2. Phr. (1) cock of the midden, (2) cock of the mine, ‘cock of the walk’; (3) too many cocks in the pot to lose, too much at stake to suffer a thing to become a failure. (1) Sc. (A.W.), Lakel.2 (2) I.Ma. He wasn takin delight in fightin— no; nor wantin to be cock-o'-the-mine, Brown Manx Witch (1889) 23. (3) Stf. Chronicle (Oct. 25, 1901).
3. A particular size of slate. Glo. Evesham Jrn. (Apr. 1, 1899). 4. v. In phr. to cock (up) the little finger, to tipple. Cum. Try a mouthful ov famish Scotch gin;.. sae cock up lal finger, Anderson Tamer, st. 1. s.Lan.1
4. With over: to set oneself above another. Lakel.2 Thoo'll niwer cock-ower me, seea noo than thoo knows hoo far ta gang.
5. With up: See below. Sc. Used in a contemptuous sense of giving or offering to one any gift, place, or honour which he does not really deserve. Used also of any unwarranted indulgence or extravagance.‘ Cock him up with a carriage and pair’ (A.W.). Oxf. (G.O.)
6. adj. Fuddled. Sc. Dick Dict. (1827). See Cocked, ppl. adj.

COCK, sb.7 Yks. Midl. Bdf. [kok.] A piece of iron with several notches fixed at the end of the plough-beam, by which the plough is regulated. w.Yks.1 Midl. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) II. Bdf. The cock is fixed to the beam end in a horizontal position by a bolt, Batchelor Agric. (1813) 161.

Un morceau de fer avec plusieurs encoches fixées à l'extrémité du soc de charrue, par lequel la charrue est réglée.