- explore
- explore: [16] Etymologically, to explore is to look for something by shouting. The word comes ultimately from Latin explorare ‘investigate’, which was based on the verb plorare ‘wail, cry out’ (source also of English deplore [16] and implore [16]), and it is thought that the word’s original scenario may have been hunters shouting to flush out (Latin ex- ‘out’) their quarry.
=> deplore, implore - cocker
- "A small spaniel of a breed with a silky coat", Early 19th century: from cock1 + -er1 (the dog was bred to flush out game birds such as woodcock).