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recocking

recocking is the present participle and gerund of recock.

Meaning of recock

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

Questions about recocking

What is recocking the present participle and gerund of?
Recocking is the present participle and gerund of recock.

Words near recocking in the dictionary

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

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