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Domestic male bird
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cockerel
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The 1900 Cockerel Egg (originally Cukoo Clock Egg) was crafted by Peter Carl Fabergé in his set of 50 Fabergé Eggs . The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Maria Feodoronova as a gift. The egg has a mechanism on the top rear that enables its bird ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A young male chicken.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A man in his shanty, a cockerel on his crowing post. ▪ All night he parades up and down the bar like a brawny old cockerel . ▪ Eventually he found the cockerel and pulled it out. ▪ Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockerel \Cock"er*el\, n. [Prob. a double dim. of cock.] A young cock.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a young domestic cock; not older than one year
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"young cock," mid-15c. (late 12c. as a surname), apparently a diminutive of cock (n.1). Despite the form, no evidence that it is from French.
Usage examples of cockerel.
Stephen, giving the cry, and a tag and bobtail of all them after, cockerel, jackanapes, welsher, pilldoctor, punctual Bloom at heels with a universal grabbing at headgear, ashplants, bilbos, Panama hats and scabbards, Zermatt alpenstocks and what not.
As well as the photographs there was the cockerel that sat on the kitchen shelf and had been given to her by her mother.
Ben, mounting the gate-post, crowed long and loud like a happy cockerel who had just reached his majority.
He looked up and the grin turned into a laugh as he did his cockerel impression.
Birmingham, and he was second in the cockerel class last year at Gloucester.
I suppose, cockerel, that now ye've picked a quarrel and will challenge me, eh?
And who are you, my young cockerel, to instruct me in the manners of nobility?
Upstanding young cockerel, swinging his sporran and marching to pipes--a fine spurn about him!
He's come to our hand as easily as a cockerel follows a trail of grain.
If I was never to rank in her eyes as anything but a nonentity, it would not greatly matter if I figured as a draggle-tailed cockerel, and the Baron were to give me a good thrashing.
His mother took three firsts at Birmingham, and he was second in the cockerel class last year at Gloucester.
The problem arises when the cockerels get confused as to when dawn actually is.
I’ll be bound you have all the cockerels in Yorkshire squaring up to each other!
A buyer of cockerels, replied Miller, with spontaneous cunning.
There were just the mist and the empty roads, and the far-off crowing of cockerels in the dawn.