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- verb Present participle of
recock .
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Examples
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Single action weapons need to be cocked each time a bullet is fired--there is no automatic recocking.
Archive 2006-05-03 Joe Konrath 2006
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One track dispenses with the drums track altogether and replaces it with gunshots with a leftover beat in the measure devoted to recocking! and works pretty damn amazingly.
Do the Doo Dew 2005
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One track dispenses with the drums track altogether and replaces it with gunshots with a leftover beat in the measure devoted to recocking! and works pretty damn amazingly.
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Ruberik paid no attention, already concentrating on the laborious recocking of his powerful weapon.
Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
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Ruberik paid no attention, already concentrating on the laborious recocking of his powerful weapon.
Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990
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"I got another, so you just subside a lot," commanded Alfred, recocking his six-shooter.
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White 1909
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"My dear Burne," said the professor, who had taken the fowling-piece and tried the locks, cocking and recocking them over and over again; "the piece seems to me to be in very perfect order."
Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor George Manville Fenn 1870
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"You don't know? very well," said Lindsay, recocking the pistol, and placing the cold muzzle of it against the Arab's yellow nose.
Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859
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Alexander Series 80 Hi Grip Safety, problems arose: hammer follow occurred (shown) and recocking during fire sequence failed.
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Alexander Series 80 Hi Grip Safety, problems arose: hammer follow occurred (shown) and recocking during fire sequence failed.
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