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Meanings of cockerel in English

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

        Synonyms
        Examples for "cock"
        Examples for "cock"
        1
        He was a dead rooster; yea, a dead cock in the pit.
        "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
        2
        The edges of the bridges and balance cock can be left smooth.
        Watch and Clock Escapements / A Complete Study in Theory and Pra...
        3
        In one case, we are dealing with a cock-up of frightening proportions.
        The Irish Times
        4
        It was morning now; the cock was still crowing down at Sirilund.
        Pan
        5
        It is too late; the cock is awake, and he must go.
        A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shake...
        1
        The rooster was wallowing luxuriously in a dusty spot in the corral.
        Jean of the Lazy A
        2
        He was a dead rooster; yea, a dead cock in the pit.
        "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
        3
        The rooster stopped quite still when he saw himself in the mirror.
        The Child's World: Third Reader
        4
        Well, it's time to put that particular rooster out of its misery.
        The Irish Times
        5
        The chickens scattered in all directions, all except Old Ironsides, the rooster.
        Raggedy Ann Stories
        1
        Once down, however, he shook his fluttered plumes, and crowed like any chanticleer.
        Sir Ludar / A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
        2
        Early in the morning the voice of the chanticleer is heard greeting the dawn.
        Jean François Millet / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Po...
        3
        From time to time was heard the crowing of some chanticleer aroused too soon.
        Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
        4
        For undertones, a neighboring wood-pecker tapping his tree, and the distant clarion of chanticleer.
        Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
        5
        The gallant chanticleer has, at command, his amorous phrases, and his terms of defiance.
        The Natural History of Selborne
        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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