cockerel
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"He flew at the chickens, eventually he separated the cockerel from the hens and he chased the cockerel."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
The video shows Fito caressing a fighting cockerel and freely chatting to fellow inmates.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024
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
Mermaid clouds drifted over the glebe, over the cockerel tree, over the Malvern Hills.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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. 30, 2021
People depend on the land, with dozens heading off to work in the fields as morning breaks, having been woken by cockerels.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2019
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
"If I had a thin, squeaky crow such as those worthless cockerels have, Farmer Green would have had to do many a day's work in the dark."
From The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Harry L. Smith
