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cockerel

[kok-er-uhl, kok-ruhl] / ˈkɒk ər əl, ˈkɒk rəl /




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"He chases the cockerel all over everywhere so we've had to shut him up."

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

The video, which was partly recorded inside the prison, shows him caressing a fighting cockerel and freely chatting to fellow inmates.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025

After being looted, the cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.

From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2021

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

Napoleon himself, attended by his dogs and his cockerel, came down to inspect the completed work; he personally congratulated the animals on their achievement, and announced that the mill would be named Napoleon Mill.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Harrison, the youngest of four children, previously lived with his parents Harold and Louise - and the family's pet cockerels - in a small house in Arnold Grove, Wavertree.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2021

Critics say that backyard flock owners’ demand for day-old pullets, or female chicks, leads to more cockerels, or male chicks, being culled or slipping through to eventually wind up in need of homes or dumped.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018

In the late 1960s, the International Dairy Federation paid Yudkin to conduct sugar studies in pigs, rats, cockerels, and humans.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018

There was also a thing about people bringing cockerels to the matches – in the 1960s, I think – because the cockerel was on the club’s badge.

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2017

I never knew that gaily-coloured barn-door cockerels were ‘bad’, and I know that a young peacock is as good as a pheasant; so where is your theory now?”

From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by William Heysham Overend


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