cockerel

Definitions

A young male chicken.

Equivalents

Examples

““Mrs. Boast can’t have⟳ got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe⟳ there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have⟳ got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat⟳ friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.””

“He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call⟳ him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.”

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