Cocking Explained

Cocking may refer to:

• Cocking affair, an attempt in 1941 by Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge to exert direct control over the state's educational system
• Cocking handle, a device on a firearm that results in the hammer or striker being cocked or moved to the ready position
• Cocking, West Sussex, a village, parish, and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England
• Cocking-cloth, a device used for catching pheasants
• Edward Cocking (born 1931), British plant scientist
• Robert Cocking (1776-1837), British watercolour artist
• Samuel Cocking (1845-1914), merchant in Yokohama