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rooster

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rooster
Chiefly US and Canadian the male of the domestic fowl; a cock

rooster [′rüs·tər]
(agriculture)
An adult male domestic fowl.
(vertebrate zoology)
An adult male of certain birds and fowl, such as pheasants and ptarmigans.

rooster
its crowing at dawn heralds each new day. [Western Folklore: Leach, 329]
See : Dawn

rooster
symbol of maleness. [Folklore: Binder, 85]
See : Virility


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Robinson was celebrating the occasion by a small and select party, the particular day having been set because strawberries were ripe and there was a rooster that wanted killing.
You were only an ordinary fellow as an eagle; but as an old rooster you are a fowl of incomparable distinction.
I spanked him for that and then he went and chased my rooster to death.
 
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