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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rooster
noun
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▪ A neighborhood rooster crows once and then twice and then falls silent.
▪ Only sensation survived: being deafened by the rooster, yet finding silence unendurable.
▪ Outside, a rooster crowed some way off, and right underneath her some one split kindling with a quick thunk thunk thunk.
▪ So the laundress was grateful; she had killed a rooster for him.
▪ The average domestic rooster is considerably louder than other birds and is therefore the most noticeable at dawn.
▪ The best Chianti has a black rooster on the label.
▪ The editor had pushed his left sleeve up and Bernstein had seen a tattoo of a rooster.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rooster

Rooster \Roost"er\, n. The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [U.S.]

Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George.
--W. Irving.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rooster

1772, agent noun from roost (v.); earlier roost cock, c.1600, in sense of "the roosting bird." Favored in the U.S. originally as a puritan alternative to cock (n.) after it had acquired the secondary sense "penis" (and compare roach).

Wiktionary
rooster

n. A male of any species of gallinaceous bird. Typically refers to the domestic chicken, (taxlink Gallus gallus domesticus species noshow=1).

WordNet
rooster

n. adult male chicken [syn: cock]

Wikipedia
Rooster

A rooster, also known as a cockerel or cock, is a male gallinaceous bird, usually a male chicken (Gallus gallus).

Mature male chickens less than one year old are called cockerels. The term "rooster" originates in the United States, and the term is widely used throughout North America, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The older terms "cock" or "cockerel", the latter denoting a young cock, are used in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

"Roosting" is the action of perching aloft to sleep at day, which is done by both sexes. The rooster is polygamous, but cannot guard several nests of eggs at once. He guards the general area where his hens are nesting, and will attack other roosters that enter his territory. During the daytime, a rooster will often sit on a high perch, usually off the ground, to serve as a lookout for his group (hence the term "rooster"). He will sound a distinctive alarm call if predators are nearby.

(The term "cock" is also used generally to refer to a male of other species of bird, for example "Cock sparrow".)

Rooster (song)

"Rooster" is a song by the band Alice in Chains. The song was released as a single in 1993 and is featured on the band's second studio album, Dirt (1992). It is the fifth song on the original pressing of the album and sixth on others. The song was included on the compilation albums Unplugged (1996), Music Bank (1999), Greatest Hits (2001), and The Essential Alice in Chains (2006). A demo version of the song was also included on Music Bank.

Rooster (disambiguation)

A rooster is a male chicken.

Rooster may also refer to:

Rooster (band)

Rooster were an English hard rock band from London. Formed in 2003, the group featured vocalist Nick Atkinson, guitarist Luke Potashnick, bassist Ben Smyth and drummer Dave Neale. Signed to Brightside Recordings, the band released their debut album Rooster in 2005. The group's second album Circles and Satellites followed in 2006, before the band broke up in 2007.

Often considered a pop rock or teen pop band in a similar vein to Busted, Rooster were more influenced by hard rock acts such as Led Zeppelin and Cream. Atkinson and Potashnick led the majority of songwriting on the first album, with Smyth and Neale contributing more to the second. Rooster was a commercial success, reaching number three on the UK Albums Chart.

Rooster (album)

Rooster is the self-titled debut album by English indie rock band Rooster. Released on 24 January 2005, the album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart and spawned four commercially successful singles, two of which peaked in the top-ten of the UK Singles Chart. The album also charted at number 26 on the Irish Albums Chart.

Rooster (zodiac)

The Rooster is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rooster is represented by the Earthly Branch character . The name is also translated into English as Cock or Chicken. Rooster is the only bird included in the Chinese zodiac.

Rooster (film)

Rooster is a 1982 made-for-TV film, starring Paul Williams and Pat McCormick who were reunited after their pairing in the Smokey and the Bandit movies. Rooster is an unsold television pilot written and produced by Glen A. Larson for 20th Century Fox Television and broadcast as a two-hour movie on the ABC Television Network in 1982.

Rooster (application)

Rooster is a mobile reading service for iOS7.

Usage examples of "rooster".

Saltbush rode before -- Old Rooster Hall was a blithesome man, when he thought of the treat in store.

Men was, beseften ze nu, bij de bouw uitgegaan van een soort rooster, een rechtlijnig systeem van met goede, zware keien geplaveide hoofdstraten, plus een systeem van kanalen die de stad in wijken opdeelden en waarover vanaf het platteland of de oceaan binnenkomende goederen konden worden vervoerd naar fabrieken en distributiecentra.

M808B Scorpion Main Battle Tanks, or MBTs, which rumbled down off the ramps, and threw dirt rooster tails up off their powerful treads as they growled into position within the screen established by the Warthogs.

The acceleration pushed him back into the seat, and as he straightened out of the turn, the wind threw the high rooster tail of spray out ahead of him, and heavy drops of water stung his face and knocked his black hair down onto his forehead.

The larch trees with their broken backs, the enormous black sky streaked with fistfuls of congealed fat, the abandoned Poor House that looked like a barn, the great brown dripping box of the Lutheran church bereft of sour souls, bereft of the hymn singers with poke bonnets and sunken and accusing horse faces and dreary choruses, a few weather-beaten cottages unlighted and tight to the dawn and filled, I could see at a glance, with the marvelous dry morality of calico and beans and lard, and then a privy, a blackened pile of tin cans, and even a rooster, a single live rooster strutting in a patch of weeds and losing his broken feathers, clutching his wattles, every moment or two trying to crow into the wind, trying to grub up the head of a worm with one of his snubbed-off claws, cankerous little bloodshot rooster pecking away at the dawn in the empty yard of some dead fisherman .

No larger than I, she was like a fragile doll on whose neck had been set, most incongruously, the large head of Cyrus, the curve to whose Achaemenid nose so resembled that of a rooster I had got to know in our courtyard that I almost expected to see nostrils like slits set atop the bridge.

Wash reached the cover of the Aleut accused by him of aiming directly to finish the Shanghai rooster, and before that startled aborigine could escape, he was disarmed by the black man and dragged across the intervening space to the fort.

Henry, the old rooster, was now sporting a bandanna around his neck and from the shape of the stick the little boy held in his hand, Althea speculated that the old bird had just robbed a train or busted into a bank.

Rebecca Mary hunted bugs and angleworms and arranged them temptingly in rows, but the big, white rooster passed them by with a feeble peck or two.

He stood, not speaking, reminding her of a little blond banty rooster.

In spite of that he drew in a breath and puffed like a banty rooster, prepared to take issue with Mary.

He glared across at Hwoshien, the two men regarding each other like a couple of irritated banty roosters.

Ric thought of a banty rooster parading before a barnyard of worshiping hens.

Tairen, though Rand stood a head taller, but he always reminded Rand of a banty rooster, all puffed out chest and strutting.

He rounded on Daise, all puffed up like a banty rooster ready to fight a mastiff.