cock-stand

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cock-stand (plural cock-stands)

  1. (archaic, vulgar slang) An erection.
    • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 393:
      ‘Do you know what they do, in France? My lady wife told me. Well, not told me, but she wrote it down for me, in Latin. The man has a cock-stand, and she takes it in her mouth!’