Cockscrow

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The crowing of a cock. no-plural

    "What a goodly noise they kept, what a flapping of their wings, and a jerking of their tails, as they stood right up and tried with a whistling in their throats to imitate a cockscrow!"

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"What a goodly noise they kept, what a flapping of their wings, and a jerking of their tails, as they stood right up and tried with a whistling in their throats to imitate a cockscrow!"

Etymology

From Middle English cokkes crowe; equivalent to cock + -s- + crow.

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