noun
definition
A young male chicken.
Examples of cockerel in a Sentence
Mornings are heralded by the local cockerel but he is never up too early!
Should you have a cockerel, you can be sure he will do his best to fertilize the eggs.
Christmas morning between 3am and dawn men gathered at churches to sing carols until the cockerel crowed.
To hear a cockerel crowing as you set off to work is heralded as an omen of good luck for the day.
We'll never know, but the very next day a large black cockerel suddenly appeared and began attacking everyone in sight.
Well, there was an old cockerel over there.
At its top it sports a golden cockerel, speared to act as a weather-vane, and also bedecked with ribbons.
I learned this first-hand when one of my brothers acquired a magnificent white cockerel and five sandy brown hens.
So will the tricolore be flying high or will there be something for the French cockerel to crow about?
Their bi-weekly newsreel was normally shown in cinemas and their logo was a cockerel crowing.
We had been lucky and had two bantams and a cockerel donated to us.
He compared the image of a strutting cockerel with its fine feathers and the men dressed up to go out.
On the following day he charged him with stealing a young cockerel, value 3s 6d, from Edwin ANDERTON.