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Definition of "jungle-cock" []

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "jungle-cock" in a sentence
  • "The common jungle-cock of India (Gallus bankiva) was found here, and furnished us with some excellent meals; but we could get no deer."
  • "Frank was thinking of her next day as he was standing on the Mess verandah after tea, cleaning his fowling-piece, when on a wooded spur running down from the mountains and sheltering the little station on the west he heard a jungle-cock crowing in the undergrowth not four hundred yards away."
  • "Deer, jungle-cock, wild hogs, and cattle are to be found in the plains and forests near the lake."