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单词 cock-setter
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cock-setter
cock-setter n. Obsolete a person who holds and incites a cock immediately before the start of a cockfight; = setter n.1 5b.Attested earliest as a surname.
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1260 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1976) 86 Adam le Cocsetere.
1828 A. E. Bray Protestant I. viii. 236 Not a bear-ward, nor a cock-setter, nor a sticker of bills..but will give thee a character.
1912 Country Life 21 Sept. 380/2 Tom Hines, the Birmingham cock-setter, or handler, as he would have been called further North.
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