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
French flags, French scarves, French fans with tricolor wigs and cockerel hats.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
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
After being looted, the cockerel was given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student.
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
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
Right then she called to one of the cockerels, who was near-by.
From The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Harry L. Smith
