cocker

Meanings

1. One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
2. One who hunts woodcocks.
3. A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
4. A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.

1. A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
2. A quiver.

1. Friend, mate.

1. To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).

1. A surname.
2. A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
3. A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.

Etymology

From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).