Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To let down the hammer of (a gun) easily, so as not to explode the charge.
- To let down or lower the brim of, as a hat, releasing it from the fastening which held it cocked up against the crown.
- To open or spread out from a cock or heap, as hay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To let down the cock of, as a firearm.
- transitive verb To deprive of its cocked shape, as a hat, etc.
- transitive verb To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
straighten orflatten (remove a cocked shape) - verb transitive To let down the
cock of (a firearm). - verb To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.
Etymologies
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Examples
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With great regret, I uncock the rifle and lower it!
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I was blindfolded, but I could hear what they were saying, and I could actually hear the guns as they would cock them and uncock them to try to threaten me.
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With difficulty he managed to uncock it and poke it back in its holster.
Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997
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With difficulty he managed to uncock it and poke it back in its holster.
Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997
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With difficulty he managed to uncock it and poke it back in its holster.
Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997
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With difficulty he managed to uncock it and poke it back in its holster.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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Holding it more in the fingers gives your hands and wrists more flexibility to cock and uncock and produce more clubhead speed and greater distance.
Find Your Own Fundamentals BOB TOSKI 1992
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Holding it more in the fingers gives your hands and wrists more flexibility to cock and uncock and produce more clubhead speed and greater distance.
Find Your Own Fundamentals BOB TOSKI 1992
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The pair had scarcely crawled up among the luggage upon the stage-top, before there was an outcry from the passengers on the box in front -- "Uncock your pistols! uncock your pistols!" for the officer had dropped his fire-arms, cocked and capped, upon the top of our coach, with the muzzles pointed towards us.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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The musician not showing any visible appreciation of the manager's metaphor, Perkins immediately proceeded to uncock his eye.
The Fifth String 1902
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