How To Use Cockerel In A Sentence
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_The best time to caponize the cockerel_ is when he weighs between two or three pounds.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Fifty years ago this summer, Sir Christopher Cockerell publicly demonstrated the hovercraft.
Boing Boing
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Barefoot men napping under sackcloth canopies. A cockerel tied to the stilt of a water butt.
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They get the name rooster because the dorsal fin looks similar to the comb on a cockerel's head.
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It can be agreed that the player or team that loses most games has to pay a forfeit, such as crawling under the table and crowing like a cockerel.
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She also wore a brightly coloured head piece that mimicked the spreading feathers of a cockerel's tail.
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Then he went over to his cages of white doves, black cockerels and other laboratory animals.
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He wasn't the most ghastly hooligan we'd seen," one senior officer told Cockerell.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Holders were ordered to lower the ceiling height of their chicken coops as, apparently, cockerels cannot crow unless they can throw their heads back.
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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.
Charity Begins With Home Furnishings
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It is hoped that the cockerel will suitably adapt his behaviour to the surroundings in which he will find himself.
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Characteristic of Kuzmichev's fine enameling is the small tazza in Plate X, which incorporates a cockerel leaning against the stem.
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The cockerel is a popular motif in modernist art, symbolising regeneration, awakening and strength.
The Guardian World News
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Advocate aflame with passion, raise a gun one gun result cockerel.
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'I'll give you a leathering, you young cockerel!' cried Lou, and began to unfasten the leather belt from round his waist.
Five Go Off In A Caravan
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In the kitchen, underneath the mirror and to the left of the etching of the cockerel was the word outspoken.
Six Sentences
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The special advisers Cockerell meets will be worth noting – David Cameron was one not long ago, as were Nick Clegg, George Osborne, Ed Balls and both Milibands.
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The first recorded use of the word cockney was in 1521 to suggest an urban fool, a man who believed in an egg laid by a cockerel.
Telegraph Blogs
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It is believed the cockerel was stolen by people who wanted to profit from the illegal practice of cock fighting.
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Beside the arena men sat on their haunches in opposing lines with cockerels between their knees.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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There are ewers like eagles and cockerels, incense-burners like lynxes and a water-pourer in the form of an unfortunate humped cow (properly a zebu) which suckles its calf while a lion bites its hump.
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As Cockerell explains, the office was set up in the wake of the Somme fiasco in 1916 with a view to coordinating all government departments.
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In one experiment, the cockerels were allowed to copulate in the presence of none, one, or three male competitors.
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Tonight, Cockerell goes knocking on the doors of Whitehall's private offices.
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Certainly I myself could have wished no variation from it in the young officer of 'bersaglieri', who had come down from antiquity to the topmost gradine of the arena over against me, and stood there defined against the clear evening sky, one hand on his hip, and the other at his side, while his thin cockerel plumes streamed in the light wind.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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Two of the farmyard cockerels had been cooked for the dinner and served with flowery potatoes and vegetables.
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A few farms run cockerels with the hens, because they help to calm the flock.
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Now, at 10, she has 20 hens, five cockerels and some ducks for which she lovingly cares.
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My mother kept chickens until all four hens and the three cockerels were stolen just over two weeks ago by the local kids.
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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.
Archive 2007-07-29
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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In one room entitled "Adieu myths", the exhibition also debunks the idea that the cockerel was a Gallic emblem, even if gallus in Latin means "cockerel" and "Gaul".
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Walker explained to me that he had been raising the young cockerel from a chick since last September, and this is his first year showing his birds.
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The only other animal to be seen was a cockerel, to which one presumed was attached some monetary value.
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Whenever Mr Cockerell rings the bell some one in the butts courteously rings back.
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And tonight, as film-maker Michael Cockerell explores their world in tonight's edition of Great Offices of State on BBC4, Mario Dunn, the former special adviser to Alan Johnson, says a fair few special advisers – but not him – modelled themselves on the fictitious, foul-mouthed Tucker.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Am I the only one seeing the irony, that the FIRST thing I have to do with this copy of Repair of Books by Cockerell is REMOVE THE 2½ "x 1½" BOOKSELLER TICKET THAT THE VENDOR APPLIED TO IT?!? at
Archive 2008-01-01
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As the sun was sinking below the horizon, we relaxed by the pool, sipping cognac and snoozing as the cockerels strutted about on the lawn nearby.
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One MDC supporter described it like plucking the feathers off a cockerel (the cockerel is the symbol of Zanu-PF).
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel. 2.
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In a culture made in my garden from the seed sent me by Mr. Cockerell, I observed (1903) that both forms had a subvariety with brownish foliage, and, besides this, one of a pure green.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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Le Coq Blanc - a pause from haymaking to admire their fine cockerel. 2.
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About half-way back up the hill, pausing for a breather, I spied a couple of beautiful little cockerels, hiding in the hedge.
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There are some recipes which specifically call for a cockerel and of these the best known are the Scottish cock-a-leekie and the French coq au vin.
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The cockerels were strutting up and down in their enclosure like generals making plans for war.
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There are ewers like eagles and cockerels, incense-burners like lynxes and a water-pourer in the form of an unfortunate humped cow (properly a zebu) which suckles its calf while a lion bites its hump.
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Unwanted baby rabbits and cockerels were abandoned in freezing conditions outside an environmental centre.
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Many local children play on the dirt grounds around this farm with the cockerels running loose all day.
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My mother kept chickens until all four hens and the three cockerels were stolen just over two weeks ago by the local kids.
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The film-maker Michael Cockerell uses an article in the latest Standpoint magazine to recount the adventures of the late "brother leader" in the town in 1966.
Hugh Muir's diary
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A day, farmer goes market bought a cockerel.
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Although Clare felt that her cockerel was the best that she'd ever bred, she was unprepared for a phone call on Saturday lunchtime telling her that she'd won best of breed.
FWi - All News
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John RobinsonThird instalment of this typically informed and witty series by Michael Cockerell.
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This is a real country garden, with hens running riot in the orchard and a cockerel lording it on the compost heap.
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Restricted range and globally threatened birds present in Cape York Peninsula include the buff-breasted buttonquail (Turnix olivii EN), golden-shouldered parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius EN), lovely fairywren (Malurus amabilis), white-streaked honeyeater (Trichodere cockerelli), and yellow-spotted honeyeater (Meliphaga notata).
Cape York tropical savanna
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This time, the marauder was a relatively young fox - and no match for the new cockerel Dude and his hens Izzy, Pongo and Pecky.
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Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
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Young cockerels make excellent table fare with juicy, flavorful meat.
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Priya ElanIn this new, three-part series, Michael Cockerell lifts the lid on the traditionally discreet and secretive world of the Cabinet Office.
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Beside the arena men sat on their haunches in opposing lines with cockerels between their knees.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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However, we still have lots of animals who desperately need loving homes, particularly rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, hens, even cockerels.
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Certainly I myself could have wished no variation from it in the young officer of 'bersaglieri', who had come down from antiquity to the topmost gradine of the arena over against me, and stood there defined against the clear evening sky, one hand on his hip, and the other at his side, while his thin cockerel plumes streamed in the light wind.
Literature and Life (Complete)