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Cockerel meaning
A young male chicken.
Example sentences (16)
He said a cockerel from a nearby cottage “fiercely guards the area”, channeling its “Roman spirit” to harry anyone who gets too close.
THE RSPCA is appealing for information after a poor cockerel was dumped with gaffa tape around his head and found inside a bin bag in Redditch.
Why not try cockerel?
A Cambridge college is to return an African bronze cockerel to Nigeria following a student campaign for the item that was looted by British colonial forces to be sent back.
Benin Bronze Cockerel, known as ”okukor”, to Nigeria.
Cambridge University in Britain is set to return a bronze statue of a cockerel looted from Nigeria more than a century ago.
Fireworks exploded over the stadium, illuminating the north London sky and the golden cockerel atop the roof.
Just before the journey’s end, there’s a treat for fans of bizarre public sculptures; Dorking’s mascot, a large shiny cockerel, resplendent on a roundabout.
Mr Biron started complaining about Maurice’s early morning crowing to his owners, Jacky and Corrine Fesseau, but they refused to get rid of their beloved cockerel.
The cockerel rushed at him and struck.
Broadly contemporary coins from Phaistos show the form under which he was worshiped: a youth sits among the branches of a tree, with a cockerel on his knees.
He returned to London in 1924, but in 1925 often visited Gill at Capel-y-ffin and the Benedictines at Caldey Island, and in the same year did illustrations for Gulliver's Travels for the Golden Cockerel Press.
Jesus College in the University of Cambridge features roosters on its coat of arms. citation The University of South Carolina features a Gamecock, or fighting cockerel, as its mascot for all athletic programs.
Note also that the cockerel will waltz again if he is taken out of the pen for a period, usually 24 hours, and put back.
On rare occasions, the hen will attempt to fight the cockerel for dominance.
Some of them have been arrested at the British border for transporting cockerels or material for cockfights, which has led to a small cottage industry of British-owned cockerel farms.