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
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 dogs flanked the procession and at the head of all marched Napoleon’s black cockerel.
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. 30, 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
"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
