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Meanings of cockerel in English

A male chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), a domestic bird.

Usage of cockerel in English
1
A capon always develops more uniformly and is larger than the cockerel.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
2
His blood was up and he strangely resembled a little bantam cockerel.
With Those Who Wait
3
I hear him crowing like young cockerel when he fus' smell daylight.
A Mortal Antipathy
4
We made her a ridiculous hat with a huge cockerel on top.
The Guardian
5
The elder boy fired and the cockerel fell like a stone.
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
6
To think of the Fifth-of-the-Line being inspected by such a young red-coated cockerel.
The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo
7
His arms gestured like the lifted wings of a startled cockerel.
The Big-Town Round-Up
8
Suppose you flap your wings, and crow for us, like a fighting cockerel.
A Dream of Empire; Or, The House of Blennerhassett
9
Henrietta Hen said that she hadn't noticed which cockerel it was.
The Tale of Henrietta Hen
10
A sheep, a cockerel, and a duck, were the first aeronauts!
Up in the Clouds: Balloon Voyages
11
PERHAPS it needed a Frenchman to trim the feathers of the North London cockerel.
The Irish Times
12
The cockerel should be starved for twenty-four hours in order to empty the intestines.
The Dollar Hen
13
The cockerel came home to roost, and so too did a few Irish chickens.
The Irish Times
14
A long-legged, flying cockerel keeled over and began to kick.
A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
15
A scarlet and turquoise parrot replaces the hysterical cockerel in accompaniment to Banbridge's diatribe.
The great lover
16
This cockerel's comb must be cut, or he will become king of the roost.
Waverley Novels — Volume 12
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