How To Use half-cock In A Sentence
- Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position.
- As he listened to their conversation, through a bug he planted, he pulled the hammer of his revolver back to half-cock and gently pushed out the loading gate.
- With the old Colt, it was possible to place the hammer on half-cock, rotate the cylinder, listen for the click and know that the chamber was lined up perfectly under the loading gate for either shucking a fired round or reloading a fresh one.
- PG, you raise a good point about what PSRC's meant to be - an angle not explored at all by this coverage yet, which results in fiery but half-cocked comments. Seattle Council, KC Exec Support Highway-Heavy Transportation Plan « PubliCola
- she wanted to quit her job but her mother told her not to go off half-cocked
- It was later differentiated from the ‘true’ flintlock by firearms scholars for whom the ‘true’ and original snaphaunce lock had a steel separate from the pan cover and a cock incapable of the half-cock safety position.
- Streatley, and so went our ways into what once would have been the deeper country under the foot-hills of the White Horse; and though the contrast between half-cockneyfied and wholly unsophisticated country existed no longer, a feeling of exultation rose within me (as it used to do) at sight of the familiar and still unchanged hills of the News from Nowhere
- In other words, if the commander and staff fail to analyze the plan thoroughly, the unit can go off half-cocked and quickly stumble.
- His half-cocked smile and his standpat spurs really jingle my jangle. The DC Damsel: The Top Five Reasons I'd Boff Dick Cheney
- Gone was the half-cock notch on the hammer and instead of bringing the hammer to half-cock to rotate the cylinder, it could now be revolved simply by opening the loading gate.
