Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In archery, the feather which stands up on the arrow when it is rightly placed upon the string, perpendicularly above the cock or notch.
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Examples
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In one instant of clear-seeing, the arrow's cock-feather glared brightly, the color of dragonfire.
Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000
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The snub-nosed young person, with his cape and his green hat with its cock-feather, did not let a mouse escape from his German mouse-trap.
Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914
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An army supposed to be irresistible was sent off, dancing and singing, in boats down the river, and all the fear was lest the alarm should drive away the white strangers with the "cock-feather chief" before there was time to catch any for slaves.
Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Should, however, the feathers be all of the same colour, that one is considered the cock-feather which is on the horn of the nock.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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Every arrow has three feathers, and the colour of one of them, which is sometimes termed the cock-feather, is generally different from that of the other two; and this feather must always be uppermost, when the arrow is placed on the string.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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