cocker
noun
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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He had cockered himself up with some vain idea that the railway carriage would be a good place for the declaration of his purpose, or perhaps the sands at Lowestoft.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope