acock

How to use acock in a sentence

• Acock's Green, a few years back only a little village, is fast becoming a thriving suburban town.

  Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell

• Maurice is the first to finish, standing a moment to light his pipe, his hat acock; then he is gone.

  The Woman Who Toils|Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst

• Johnny obediently waited; but he wanted to see, so he sat up on his hind legs with eyes agog and ears acock.

  Johnny Bear|E. T. Seton

• "Prelude in G flat," breathed Major N—— tensely, as he waited with eye alight and ear acock for the next notes.

  To Kiel in the 'Hercules'|Lewis R. Freeman