cock vs gnomon

cock

noun
  • The style or gnomon of a sundial. 

  • The penis. 

  • The circle at the end of the rink. 

  • The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle. 

  • Vulva, vagina. 

  • Shuttlecock. 

  • A male fish, especially a salmon or trout. 

  • A cock pigeon. 

  • The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. 

  • A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing. 

  • Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay. 

  • The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. 

  • A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). 

  • The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism. 

  • Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud. 

  • A man; a fellow, especially as a term of address. 

  • A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. 

  • The indicator of a balance. 

  • A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person. 

  • A boastful tilt of one's head or hat. 

intj
  • Expression of annoyance. 

verb
  • To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully. 

  • To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired. 

  • To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy. 

  • To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted. 

  • To erect; to turn up. 

  • To form into piles. 

gnomon

noun
  • An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. 

  • A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram. 

  • An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude. 

  • The index of the hour circle of a globe. 

  • A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers (“numbers equal to the numbers of dots in geometric figures formed of dots”). 

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