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 master of a Cambridge University college has described the return of a looted bronze cockerel to representatives of Nigeria as a "momentous occasion".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2021
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
The cockerel tree you can see from my bedroom wasn't running left to right now, it was running right to left.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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The sanctuary cares for 350 rescued or special needs animals on farmland, and was recently served with noise abatement notices over it's loud cockerels.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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
And I’ll take a flock of twenty three-months-old chicks in pay for it–fifteen pullets and five cockerels.
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Marlowe, Amy Bell