Half-Cock is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 149 anagrams from letters in half-cock (-accfhklo).
First recorded in 1825-35
It is not true; but even if true, better (p. 243) to go off at half-cock than not at all.
He set the flints at half-cock, and drew back the pins of the priming pans.
Then, in a flash, as it were, I remembered that it was on the half-cock.
The hammer of the Tennesseean's pistol stopped at half-cock.
Thus the criticism of the unthinking—of the laymen who went off at half-cock.
I've been a fool, I admit that, but Rachael has no cause to go off at half-cock, this way!
With his left hand he pulled the hammer back to half-cock, then full.
He saw Stacy not thirty yards before him with his rifle at half-cock.
There is no putting to half-cock but only slipping the safety on or off.
If the piece be not at half-cock, the cylinder and barrel cannot be assembled to the frame.
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