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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gamecock \Game"cock`\ (g[=a]m"k[o^]k`), n. (Zo["o]l.) The male game fowl.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A gamecock is a type of rooster with physical and behavioral traits suitable for cockfighting . Male and female chickens of such a breed are referred to as game fowl . However, game birds are wild birds, such as turkeys and quail , that are hunted for food ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cock bred and trained for fighting [syn: fighting cock ] someone who is a very fierce fighter [syn: hell-kite , hell-rooster ]
Usage examples of gamecock.
The deflected energies of the gamecock found new outlet in a sudden and sustained attack on the sleeping and temporarily inoffensive pigling, and the duel which followed was desperate and embittered beyond any possibility of effective intervention.
The pigling, as though aware that it might have outstayed its welcome, dashed out at the door, and the gamecock followed it at a more dignified pace.
He thanked Gamecock and the woman for their help and went off with the Frenchman to the front of the grogshop.
When you and Gamecock heard I was looking for him, offering money on behalf of the Vice President, you found someone to pass off as Facon in hopes of making an easy profit.
But if any of them knew the name Prester Gamecock they were reluctant to admit it.
By the time he reached the Purple Seal they told him Gamecock had been there and gone.
Alex peered through the window and saw Gamecock collecting some coins from the barber.
The turkey-cock, with the bronzed sheen of his feathers and the purple-red of his wattles, the gamecock, with the glowing metallic lustre of his Eastern plumage, the hens, with their ochres and buffs and umbers and their scarlet combs, and the drakes, with their bottle-green heads, made a medley of rich colour, in the centre of which the old woman looked like a withered stalk standing amid a riotous growth of gaily-hued flowers.
Latimer showed a belated firmness on the subject of Hartlepool Helen, and Vera withdrew without pressing the point, having first settled the gamecock on his extemporised perch and taken an affectionate farewell of the pigling.
The gamecock, who may have fancied that he was being rocked in the branches of a pine-tree, bore the motion with greater fortitude than Latimer was able to command.
King Geoffrey, had got him the command of this army when Geoffrey sacked Joseph the Gamecock outside of Marthasville.
Joseph the Gamecock was doing in the Marthasville campaign before King Geoffrey relieved him and appointed me in his place.
Peachtree Province the year before as Hard-Riding Jimmy was using now, and Count Joseph the Gamecock had matched it time after time.
Geoffrey plans to send part of your army to Count Joseph the Gamecock, who is gathering forces in Palmetto Province to try to hold off the southrons.
Joseph the Gamecock was trying to build might mean his force was outnumbered only four to one.