These are the meanings of the letters COCKMATCH when you unscramble them.
- Acock (adv.)
In a cocked or turned up fashion.
- Catch (n.)
A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.
- Catch (n.)
A slight remembrance; a trace.
- Catch (n.)
Act of seizing; a grasp.
- Catch (n.)
Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- Catch (n.)
Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.
- Catch (n.)
That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
- Catch (n.)
That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.
- Catch (n.)
The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.
- Catch (v. i.)
To attain possession.
- Catch (v. i.)
To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.
- Catch (v. i.)
To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
- Catch (v. i.)
To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
- Catch (v. t.)
Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
- Catch (v. t.)
To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
- Catch (v. t.)
To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
- Catch (v. t.)
To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
- Catch (v. t.)
To get possession of; to attain.
- Catch (v. t.)
To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
- Catch (v. t.)
To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
- Catch (v. t.)
To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
- Catch (v. t.)
To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.
- Catch (v. t.)
To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
- Catch (v. t.)
To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.
- Chock (adv.)
Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
- Chock (n.)
A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
- Chock (n.)
A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
- Chock (n.)
An encounter.
- Chock (v. i.)
To fill up, as a cavity.
- Chock (v. t.)
To encounter.
- Chock (v. t.)
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
- Coach (n.)
A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
- Coach (n.)
A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
- Coach (n.)
A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
- Coach (n.)
A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
- Coach (v. i.)
To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with
- Coach (v. t.)
To convey in a coach.
- Coach (v. t.)
To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
- Coact (v. i.)
To act together; to work in concert; to unite.
- Coact (v. t.)
To force; to compel; to drive.
- Macho (n.)
The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).
- Match (n.)
Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
- Match (v.)
A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
- Match (v.)
A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- Match (v.)
A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
- Match (v.)
A matrimonial union; a marriage.
- Match (v.)
A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.
- Match (v.)
A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
- Match (v.)
An agreement, compact, etc.
- Match (v.)
Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- Match (v.)
Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
- Match (v. i.)
To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
- Match (v. i.)
To be united in marriage; to mate.
- Match (v. t.)
To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
- Match (v. t.)
To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
- Match (v. t.)
To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.
- Match (v. t.)
To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
- Match (v. t.)
To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.
- Match (v. t.)
To marry; to give in marriage.
- Match (v. t.)
To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
- Mocha (n.)
A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea.
- Mocha (n.)
A variety of coffee brought from Mocha.
- Mocha (n.)
An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
- Thack ()
Alt. of Thacker