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Cocks Summary
621 words, approx. 2 pages COCKS. The cock is preeminently a sun symbol. In western Asia the crowing cock is closely associated with solar rituals; in the ancient Near East it became an integral part of the solar iconography during the second millennium BCE, and the mythology of...
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Epithets and Terms of Address: Cock, Old Cock
307 words, approx. 1 pages Used mainly by British male speakers to other men in a friendly way. The expression dates from the seventeenth century and derives from the slang use of ‘cock’ to mean a man who fights with great courage. ‘He has drawn blood of him...
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Epithets and Terms of Address: Rooster
94 words, approx. 1 pages This is a mainly American term for a cock, one that has sometimes been applied to a man who is cocky, or vain. The occasional instances of vocative use that come to light, however, appear to be reasonably flattering. In George Meredith’s Henry...
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Rooster Proverbs : World Proverbs
30 words, approx. 1 pages Roosters are the clock of the fields. (Spanish) The country rooster does not crow in the town. (Swahili) The rooster of a lucky man lays eggs for him....
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Rooster Information
1,672 words, approx. 6 pages
 A rooster, cock or cockerel is a male chicken (Gallus gallus), the female being called a hen. The original term is "cock", from Old English cocc, but this term tends to be avoided these days due to its use in sexual slang. It is replaced by euphemisms:...




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 Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
Rooster ruckus
04/27/2006: 715 words, approx. 2 pages City police seize roomful of birds they suspect were being trained for cockfighting. Some things are just hard to keep secret in the city. Like roosters. Whether they were "pets,'' as the homeowner said, or in training for an illegal cockfighting...
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 Evening Standard - London
A Rooster booster
09/16/1999: 1,133 words, approx. 4 pages GREAT talent rewrites the rule book. In sport, art, business or science, the principle is always the same: when an exceptionally gifted practitioner happens along, a world is altered. Everything which comes afterwards must take their work into account. The particular field...
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Measure seeks to muffle Calif. roosters
2/4/2008: 286 words, approx. 1 pages Rooster owners in this Southern California city may be about to get their feathers ruffled.Measure A on Tuesday's ballot seeks to muffle incessant cock-a-doodle-dooing and crack down on illegal cockfighting by limiting the number of roosters residents can own in rural areas within the city...
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Rooster joins 'Sopranos' stars onstage
3/29/2007: 1,063 words, approx. 4 pages Even on "The Sopranos," Michael Imperioli never had a co-star like this one: a bird with shiny black plumage topped by a bright red comb.Dino is a fighting rooster in Mike Batistick's "Chicken," a new play about an anguished Bronx family staged at the 64-seat...


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