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But maybe this young man has a better plan, maybe how you old cockers did it is antiquated.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2013

The magazine also contains obituaries memorializing accomplished cockers and endless advice on how to care for your brood.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2012

That disparity draws cockers to states like Alabama, where the penalties are often as light as those given for routine traffic violations.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2012

Mrs. Norman Thomas, wife of the Socialist, and Mrs. Francis Patrick Gar- van, wife of the Chemical Foundation's philanthropic lawyer-president, both breed fine cockers on Long Island, both had entries in last week's Westminster.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several of the Dennison family, too, about that date, were likewise great "cockers."

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney