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>A male chicken. See cock (chicken) for more information. This is the original meaning. It is also called "rooster" or "cockerel".Cockfighting is a sport in which two male chickens are made to fight one another for dominance.The word rooster for a male chicken arose, especially in the USA, as a euphemism for cock, to avoid the vulgarism below for penis.In ornithologist's usage a male bird (a female is a "hen").a type of tap, faucet or valve.Steam cock, is a drain valve on a steam engine cylinder.Bib cock, a small type of valve.Sample cock, small valve fitted in brewerys and other process industries to check the product during manufacture.Stop cock to turn off the mains supply of water to a house. A Stop cock is also used in chemistry, the valve on a titration tube is called a stop cock.Petcock, a small valve, primarily for draining liquid or releasing pressure from a vessel.A vulgarism for the penis.The shape and function of the type of mechanism called the cock, and the male symbolism of the rooster, gives this term double reinforcement.This is occasionally used for a hateful man, similar to dick, prick, or the feminine cunt. A part of a clock or watch used to support an outrigger bearing for a gear or lever. It is green in the image.Balance cock, supports the balance wheel in a watch.Fly cock, supports the fly on a bracket clock.A state of the hammer in a firearm. A gun may be "cocked" in readiness for firing. Flintlocks usually have two "cocked" positions, the first of which (half-cock) enables priming, but keeps the trigger locked. This is the origin of the term "going off at half cock" or "going off half-cocked", which describes premature firing.An alternative name for a shuttlecock. See more at Wikipedia.org...

>For other uses, see Crow (disambiguation). See text The true crows are in the genus Corvus; they are large Passerine birds. As a group they show remarkable examples of intelligence; it would not be at all an exaggeration to characterize crows as being to birds what higher primates (including humans) are are to mammals. They also top the avian IQ scale[1]. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Crows in the northwestern US (a blend of Corvus brachyrhynchos and Corvus caurinus) show modest linguistic capabilities and the ability to relay information over great distances, live in complex, hierarchic societies involving hundreds of individuals with various "occupations", and have an intense rivalry with the area's less socially-advanced ravens. One species, the New Caledonian Crow, has recently been intensively studied because of its ability to manufacture and use its own tools in the day-to-day search for food. See more at Wikipedia.org...