cockerel

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Items include 12 brass plaques, known as Benin Bronzes, a brass cockerel and a key to the king's palace.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2022

The sculpture of a cockerel was one of hundreds of Benin Bronzes that were pillaged from the once mighty Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now Nigeria.

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2021

A cockerel laying an egg, after all, was a "heinous and unnatural crime," the court found.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2021

Then, in 1908, under the headline “A Poolsbrook Fowl Robbery,” it was reported that Trainer had been charged with stealing a cockerel and three hens.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019

Mermaid clouds drifted over the glebe, over the cockerel tree, over the Malvern Hills.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell