The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cock \Cock\ (k[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cocked (k[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cocking.] [Cf. Gael. coc to cock.]
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To set erect; to turn up.
Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
--Gay.Dick would cock his nose in scorn.
--Swift. To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
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To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
They cocked their hats in each other's faces.
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To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation. Cocked hat.
A hat with large, stiff flaps turned up to a peaked crown, thus making its form triangular; -- called also three-cornered hat.
A game similar to ninepins, except that only three pins are used, which are set up at the angles of a triangle.
Usage examples of "three-cornered hat".
His companion had a dark wig, a three-cornered hat, and a moustache, and was more difficult to make out.
His rider was a priest, dressed in black, and wearing a three-cornered hat.
He'd switched his eyepatch to the other empty eye socket, and now wore a proud three-cornered hat, pushed well back on his skull.
And no sooner have the Wars of Succession designed the full-bottomed periwig than the three-cornered hat, in the course of three Silesian wars, becomes more and more severe.
When he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the general's three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, till the general asked him to restore it.
Under a piratical and oversized three-cornered hat his fish-blank eyes followed the shambling figure of Ahmed the Hindoo Beggar, and the nearly toothless slash of a mouth turned up in a smile.
A three-cornered hat, point-edged, was set upon his powdered wig, and in his hand he carried a long beribboned cane.
When it was tight, he reached into Paine's vest, pulled out a three-cornered hat, and fit it firmly over his head.