| Barbary cock-pigeon | type of pigeon from the Barbary coast; [reputedly of Eastern men] man who jealously safeguards his wife |
| Chanticleer | cock, rooster [in the medieval story of Reynard the Fox, retold in Chaucer's ‘The Nun's Priest's Tale’] |
| chequin | type of gold coin [of Italy and Turkey] |
| cock | weathercock |
| cock | small ship's boat, dinghy |
| cock | woodcock [known for its foolishness] |
| cock | [of a gun] pistol-hammer, cocking-piece |
| cock | tap, spout [of a wine cask] |
| cock | softened variant of 'God' |
| cock and pie, by | by God and the service book |
| cock-a-hoop, set | [unclear meaning] abandon all restraint, put everything into disorder |
| cockerel | young cock |
| cocklight | morning cock-crow, dawn |
| cock-sure | with complete security, with total confidence |
| coxcomb | fool's cap [with a crest like a cock's crest] |
| craven | [cock-fighting] cock that shows no fighting spirit |
| Cydnus | river in Cilicia, S Turkey; meeting place of Cleopatra and Antony, 41 BC |
| Dardan, Dardania | region in W Turkey in which Troy was the capital |
| Hellespont | ['helespont] Dardanelles; narrow strait in NW Turkey, connecting the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara |
| inhooped | [cock-fighting] kept within a hoop [to make birds fight] |
| Propontic Sea | Sea of Marmora, Turkey |
| Simois | [pron: 'simohees] river flowing from Mt Ida to the plain of Troy, W Turkey |
| Tarsus | ancient city of Asia Minor, S Turkey |
| Tenedos | [pron: 'tenedos] island near Troy, W Turkey |
| Troy | ancient city of W Turkey, besieged for 10 years during the Trojan Wars; also called Ilium, Ilion |
| Turk | Sultan of Turkey |