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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cockerel
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 their fine cockerel. 2.
▪ The problem for the cockerel is that the higher his level of testosterone, the greater his parasite infestation.
▪ Then he released the headless cockerel.
▪ Then he went over to his cages of white doves, black cockerels and other laboratory animals.
▪ There were just the mist and the empty roads, and the far-of crowing of cockerels in the dawn.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockerel

Cockerel \Cock"er*el\, n. [Prob. a double dim. of cock.] A young cock.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cockerel

"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.

Wiktionary
cockerel

n. A young male chicken.

WordNet
cockerel

n. a young domestic cock; not older than one year

Wikipedia
Cockerel (Fabergé egg)

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 to come out and move.

The egg is part of the Viktor Vekselberg Collection, owned by The Link of Times Foundation, and housed in the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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.