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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...

>This article is about a birds of prey. For other uses, see Hawk (disambiguation). The term hawk refers to birds of prey in any of three senses:Strictly, to mean any of the species in the genera Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis, and Megatriorchis. The widespread Accipiter genus includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, the Sharp-shinned Hawk and others. They are mainly woodland birds that hunt by sudden dashes from a concealed perch. They usually have long tails and high visual acuity. See more at Wikipedia.org...

>For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). Many - see section below. Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. Birds range in size from the tiny hummingbirds to the huge Ostrich and Emu. Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, there are about 8,800–10,200 living bird species (plus about 120–130 that have become extinct in the span of human history) in the world, making them the most diverse class of terrestrial vertebrates. See more at Wikipedia.org...