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    weapon without having set the firearm into "full-cock" position. Early flintlocks had required a half-cock position to prime the pan, in preparation for...
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    could then safely load the musket or pistol. To fire, the cock was moved to the full-cock position, which caused the dog to fall backward and no longer...
    2 KB (304 words) - 20:02, 29 June 2024
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    loading the weapon at full cock. The model 1871 included a locking bolt in the breech mechanism. The user pulled the hammer to the full cock position, retracted...
    5 KB (593 words) - 06:57, 10 October 2023
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    square to and in the center of the steel; in the snaphaunce the cock can only be at full-cock or down, where it prevents the steel from being brought back...
    10 KB (1,311 words) - 00:52, 1 June 2024
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    Cockfight (redirect from Cock fighting)
    gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a "game", a sport, pastime or entertainment, was recorded in 1634, after the term "cock of the game" used by George...
    74 KB (7,928 words) - 19:44, 26 June 2024
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    other revolvers (like Smith & Wesson or Ruger). When the revolver is at full cock, just as the trigger is pressed, the cylinder locks up for the duration...
    28 KB (3,354 words) - 22:34, 9 July 2024
  • "Cock Magic" is the eighth episode in the eighteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 255th overall episode, it was written...
    8 KB (1,105 words) - 15:16, 5 April 2024
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    lockplate. Half cock was provided by a dog catch behind the cock. At full cock, the sear passing through the lockplate engaged the heel of the cock. The other...
    5 KB (597 words) - 21:31, 28 April 2024
  • "Cock a Doodle Doo" (Roud 17770) is an English nursery rhyme. The most common modern version is: Cock a doodle doo! My dame has lost her shoe, My master's...
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    John Robert "Joe" Cocker OBE (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that...
    43 KB (4,972 words) - 07:01, 5 July 2024
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    going into battle. To fire: The cock is further rotated from half-cock to full-cock, releasing the safety lock on the cock. The gun is leveled and the trigger...
    30 KB (4,265 words) - 19:00, 8 July 2024
  • release the cock. Half-cock was a safety position, used when loading, storing or carrying a loaded flintlock. The "full-cock" position held the cock all the...
    23 KB (3,383 words) - 01:40, 14 June 2024
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    and has two catch-points corresponding to the half-cocked and full-cocked positions. The half-cock catch-point is a V-notch into which the sear fits and...
    17 KB (2,189 words) - 14:53, 12 January 2024
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    Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and radio presenter. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member...
    51 KB (5,440 words) - 17:29, 3 July 2024
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    Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, are an American-Belgian industrial rock band, and sometimes supergroup, that began as a musical side project for...
    19 KB (1,501 words) - 10:03, 28 May 2024
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    of the trigger slips beyond the strut so that the hammer will stay in full cock if it is pulled back manually. The Model 1878 had a larger frame than...
    7 KB (676 words) - 02:39, 26 May 2024
  • This is the discography of American pop rock band Cock Robin. Peak position on the Compilations Chart "The Promise You Made" was first released as a promotional...
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    half cock notch, which rendered the trigger inoperable until the hammer was pulled back to full cock and then lowered manually to the half cock position...
    34 KB (2,972 words) - 17:46, 9 July 2024
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    hammer is pulled back into the "full cocked" position, from which it is fired. The phrase "don't go off half cocked" originated with these types of weapons...
    19 KB (2,159 words) - 19:01, 23 June 2024
  • Cocked and Loaded is an LP released February 14, 2006 by the Revolting Cocks on 13th Planet Records. All track numbers refer to the retail version. Alien...
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