Word: cocking
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That the latest announcement at Harvard is cock-fighting...
...used to read it at school. He recalls the private school matches-games of the mildest description, pursued under the immediate eye of a master. He remembers his transfer to the world of public school foot-ball the punt about between hours, the compulsory game, the matches for "cock house," the foreign matches, the Old Boys' match, and finally the ecstatic moment when he found himself elected to the dignity of a cap. That cap be still preserves among the curios in his smoking-room and perhaps regards in with greater affection than anything else, inasmuch as it speaks...
...turkey-cock, who ruled the walk...
Like a weather-cock's vane in a gale...
...olde cock learns as the younge one crows...