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  • verb Present participle of nock.

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Examples

  • The simple things you can do include adjusting your peep sight, adjusting wheel lean, adjusting your nocking point, move your rest for center shot, install string silencers, install a release loop and adjust draw length.

    Can you tune your own bow? 2009

  • Eir spun about, nocking the blazing-hot arrow on her bow and drawing back.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Eir spun about, nocking the blazing-hot arrow on her bow and drawing back.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • The simple things you can do include adjusting your peep sight, adjusting wheel lean, adjusting your nocking point, move your rest for center shot, install string silencers, install a release loop and adjust draw length.

    Can you tune your own bow? 2009

  • Eir spun about, nocking the blazing-hot arrow on her bow and drawing back.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Eir spun about, nocking the blazing-hot arrow on her bow and drawing back.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • As the others took their places, Lucia readied her bow, nocking an arrow.

    Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

  • Without warning, she leapt up into a waterlogged oak, crouching there as she resumed her shooting stance, nocking another arrow.

    Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

  • Occasionally he practices reaching behind his back, drawing an arrow from the quiver, nocking it, and drawing the bowstring back to his cheek in one slick, effortless motion, without slowing his pace.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Many people were nocking on the knowledge angle, but it seems that they did not get that the point was that the search for knowledge at the expense of others negated the very purpose of knowledge - which is progress.

    Sunday Discussion: Why Are There Always Bad Apples?! « FirstShowing.net 2008

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