"No clue?" asked Holmes, cocking his eye at the Colonel.
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Cocking
Synonyms for "cocking" (331 found)
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"Now, choose,” he said, drawing his sword with the right hand, and, with the left, by the same motion taking a pistol from his belt and cocking it, but turning the point of one weapon and the muzzle of the other to the ground.
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Thus circumstanced, he became the avowed companion of sharpers and gamblers, attended cockings and races […]
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"Son of a cocking bastard."
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