Nocked vs Cocked - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between nocked and cocked

is that nocked is past tense of nock while cocked is past tense of cock.

drunk.

(head)

(nock)

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(en noun)

Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.

The notch at the rear of an arrow that fits on the bowstring.

* Chapman

He took his arrow by the nock .

(nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or trysail.

(en verb)

To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow.

To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow).

(head)

(informal) drunk

He is totally cocked right now, about thirteen beers into his 12-pack.

(head)

(cock)