Set off as fast as you can run. A cock is a tap through which liquor runs. “To cock” is to walk lightly or nimbly.
“If storms be nigh then cock apace,” says Tusser (1174).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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