Cocker
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
Cocker . Sir 30:9 ‘Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid,’ that is ‘pamper.’ Cf. Shaks. King John V. i. 70
‘Shall a beardless boy,
A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields?’
and Hull (1611), ‘No creatures more cocker their young than the Asse and the Ape.’ The word is not found earlier than the 15th century. Its origin is obscure.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
(2): (n.) One given to cockfighting.
(3): (v. t.) To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
(4): (n.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
an old English term, used but once in the A. V. of the Apocrypha ( Sirach 30:9, Τίθνησον , Tend as a nurse), in the sense of Fondle, or treat gently.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
kok´ẽr τιθηνέω tithēnéō
