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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cockered p. pr. & vb. n. Cockering. ] [ OE. cokeren; cf. W. cocru to indulge, fondle, E. cock the bird, F. coqueliner to dandle (Cotgrave), to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls, and E. cockle, v. ] To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cock the bird. ] 1. One given to cockfighting. [ Obs. ] Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. coker qyiver, boot, AS. cocer quiver; akin to G. köcher quiver, and perh. originally meaning receptacle, holder. Cf. Quiver (for arrows). ] A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. a double dim. of cock. ] A young cock. [ 1913 Webster ]

. One of a breed of small or medium-sized spaniels kept for hunting or retrieving game or for household pets. They usually weigh from eighteen to twenty-eight pounds. They have the head of fair length, with square muzzle, the ears long and set low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but not curly. Various colors are bred, as black, liver, red, black and white, black and tan, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A potter. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Crock an earthen vessel. ] Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
Syn. -- stevedore, loader, longshoreman, dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound.
Syn. -- knocker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a military barracks).
Syn. -- locker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ capitalized ] prop. n. [ From Diedrich KNickerbocker, the fictional author of The History of New York, in fact written by Washington Irving. ] A descendent of the early Dutch colonists of the New York City area; -- used mostly as a nickname for an inhabitant of New York state or especially New York City. [ PJC ]

n. pl. The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes; called also knickers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said;
Tie up the knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person strikingly handsome, beautiful, or fine; one who wins admiration; a “stunner.” [ Slang. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A species of large cockroach, especially Blabera gigantea, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. [ usually used in pl. ] a woman's breast. [ vulgar ] [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, locks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chain locker (Naut.), a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. --
Davy Jones's locker, or
Davy's locker. See Davy Jones. --
Shot locker, a compartment where shot are deposited. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deceiver; an impostor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A mocking bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.), A smooth-barked North American hickory (Carya tomentosa) with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.
Syn. -- mockernut hickory, black hickory, white-heart hickory, big-bud hickory, Carya tomentosa . [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The fruit of the mockernut{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Mockeries [ F. moquerie. ] 1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is, as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. [ 1913 Webster ]

The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. 2 Macc. viii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mach.) Same as Rock shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rocker arm (Mach.), an arm borne by a rock shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gardening) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants. [ 1913 Webster ]