cocks
Also fighting cocks. A dial. name for the Ribwort Plantain (cf. cock's-head), from a children's game in which the tough stems with their flower-heads are struck against each other.
| 1847–78 in Halliwell. 1869 R. B. Peacock Lonsdale Gloss., To fight cocks..with the tough tufted stems of the ribwort plantain. |