Crossword clues for cockcrow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockcrow \Cock"crow\, Cockcrowing \Cock"crow`ing\, n. The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning; the first light of day.
Syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup.
Wiktionary
alt. The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light n. The time of day at which the first crow of a cockerel is heard; dawn or daybreak; first light
WordNet
n. the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup] [ant: sunset]
Usage examples of "cockcrow".
She had always awoken at cockcrow, ready for whatever the new day might hold.
Finally toward morning, just before cockcrow, the four coaches with black horses and white horses drove up without coachmen.
With the first cockcrow, they were back in the saddle, and on their way with the earliest light.
If politicians of all sorts searched diligently amongst their antecedents for proletarianism and denied aristocratic contacts three times before cockcrow every weekday morning, who was I to spoil the fun?
Exhume, scatter to the winds, drink of the corpse's bath water, pour it across the threshold alone at night before cockcrow on St.
She's said to have walked until cockcrow and spoken to many persons, and the whole town's abuzz over it.
One hears the cockcrows in the villages of that mysterious land behind the German lines.
He listened through a cacophony of cockcrows before the owner showed up.