1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes sig. M4^v Beeing broken, they must haue a drying time before they can bee put into greater cockes; and then opening them againe into the last and greatest, by tedding, gathering, cocking, recocking, and treble-cocking, your haye continuing aboue a weeke on the ground.

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Mid-Lothian 129 They have re-cocked their hay after the rain has begun to fall.

1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 337/2 By re-cocking the piece, another discharge may be made.

1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers ii. 27 I drew a pistol..and fired... His comrade, hearing me re-cock, took to his heels.

1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 54 The pulling out of the trigger-guard will then re-cock the piece.

1917 H. R. Haggard Finished iv. 53 ‘Wait and you will see,’ he replied, re-cocking the revolver.

1979 J. Gardner Nostradamus Traitor lvi. 276 Herbert pressed the trigger and there was the answering hollow click of a misfire. He..looked down at the weapon and re-cocked, lifting it again.

2007 Northern News (Kirkland Lake, Ont.) (Nexis) 30 Mar. c7 The co-accused re-cocked the weapon and fired again.