The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V, from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. 1864, Robert Niccol, Essay on Sugar, and General Treatise on Sugar Refining:.
The sense 'penis', etymologically unrelated, is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock ( “ penis ” ) attested since 1325.Ĭock ( countable and uncountable, plural cocks) Reinforced by Old French coc, also of imitative origin.
