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recock

recock verb: to cock (a firearm) again.

Verb

recock (third-person singular simple present recocks, present participle recocking, simple past and past participle recocked)

  1. (transitive) To cock (a firearm) again.
    • He recocked, fired again, and hit his adversary's abdomen. Mr. Dickinson bled to death over many hours, in terrible agony, according to accounts.2007 December 17, Theo Emery, “Killed in a Duel, Then Lost in the Earth”, in New York Times

Forms of recock

third-person singular presentrecocks
present participlerecocking
past participlerecocked
pastrecocked

Origin of recock

From re- + cock.

Questions about recock

What does recock mean?
Recock means to cock (a firearm) again.
What part of speech is recock?
Recock is a verb.
What is the past tense of recock?
The past tense of recock is recocked.

Words near recock in the dictionary

  1. recoats
  2. recobble
  3. recobbled
  4. recobbles
  5. recobbling
  6. recock
  7. recocked
  8. recocking
  9. recocks
  10. recoct
  11. recocted

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