英语词汇“half-cock”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

half-cock

noun

The partly raised position of the cock of a gun: although the hammer has a half-cock position, I would not carry this pistol with a chambered round...

It was later differentiated from the ‘true’ flintlock by firearms scholars for whom the ‘true’ and original snaphaunce lock had a steel separate from the pan cover and a cock incapable of the half-cock safety position.
Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position.
As he listened to their conversation, through a bug he planted, he pulled the hammer of his revolver back to half-cock and gently pushed out the loading gate.

Phrases

at half-cock

单词	half-cock
释义	half-cock noun The partly raised position of the cock of a gun: although the hammer has a half-cock position, I would not carry this pistol with a chambered round... It was later differentiated from the ‘true’ flintlock by firearms scholars for whom the ‘true’ and original snaphaunce lock had a steel separate from the pan cover and a cock incapable of the half-cock safety position. Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position. As he listened to their conversation, through a bug he planted, he pulled the hammer of his revolver back to half-cock and gently pushed out the loading gate. Phrases at half-cock
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