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Brewer's: Cock apace
Set off as fast as you can run. A cock is a tap through which liquor runs. “To cock” is to walk lightly or nimbly.
“If storms be nigh then cock apace,” says Tusser (1174).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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