Definition of "cockerel" []

• A young rooster. (noun)

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• ""This cockerel is going to be the best thing I've seen all night, but I've already bought something," he said."
• "Doubtless we shall all be confounded in due course, for examining the entrails of a recently slaughtered cockerel is no more reliable now than it was in Roman times."
• "The cockerel is a popular motif in modernist art, symbolising regeneration, awakening and strength."