Cock

A cock is:

a male bird (a female is a "hen").
- in particular a male chicken ("rooster or cockerel" if under one year old). Cockfighting is a sport in which two male chickens are made to fight one another. The word rooster for a male chicken arose, especially in the USA, as a euphemism for cock, to avoid the vulgarism below for penis.

a vulgarism for the penis

a type of tap, faucet or valve.
- Steam cock, is a drain valve on a steam engine cylinder.
- Bib cock, a small type of valve.
- Sample cock, small valve fitted in brewerys and other process industries to check the product during manufacture.
- Stop cock to turn off the mains supply of water to a house.

The bracket in horology is called a cock (green)

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