From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcockerelcock‧e‧rel /ˈkɒkərəl $ ˈkɑː-/ noun [countable] HBBa young male chicken
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cockerel• A man in his shanty, a cockerel on his crowing post.• Then he went over to his cages of white doves, black cockerels and other laboratory animals.• Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel. 2.• Then he released the headless cockerel.• There were just the mist and the empty roads, and the far-of crowing of cockerels in the dawn.• All night he parades up and down the bar like a brawny old cockerel.• The problem for the cockerel is that the higher his level of testosterone, the greater his parasite infestation.• Eventually he found the cockerel and pulled it out.Origin cockerel (1400-1500) French dialect kokerel, from Old French coc; → COCKADE 