Meaning of Cocking | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The hunting of gamecocks.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8717).
   countable, uncountable
3. Cockfighting.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. A habitational surname from Old English.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races […]”

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