cockerel
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"He chases the cockerel all over everywhere so we've had to shut him up."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
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
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Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary said the highly-contagious influenza was identified after it took in a number of dumped cockerels.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2022
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
Like two young cockerels they stood, fronting each other, heads down, thumbs home to the hilt in red mouths, hackles ready to rise at the least sign—round eyes fixed on round eyes.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
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