How To Use Half-cock In A Sentence
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Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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she wanted to quit her job but her mother told her not to go off half-cocked
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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.
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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
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In other words, if the commander and staff fail to analyze the plan thoroughly, the unit can go off half-cocked and quickly stumble.
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His half-cocked smile and his standpat spurs really jingle my jangle.
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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.
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Every unearthable fact of his life was pulled out, torn apart, and pontificated upon by as many half-cocked pundits as had opinions to peddle.
The Priest
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In other words, if the commander and staff fail to analyze the plan thoroughly, the unit can go off half-cocked and quickly stumble.
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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-cocknified 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 Berkshire range.
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