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单词 first cock
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first (also second, third) cock
4. The crowing of a cock at dawn or in the early morning. Chiefly with preceding qualifying word as first (also second, third) cock indicating a time in the early morning. Cf. cockcrowing n. 1. Now rare.
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a1500 (?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) l. 783 (MED) At þe fryst cokke roose hee.
1573 W. Smith XII. Mery Iests Wyddow Edyth (new ed.) xi. sig. G.ii I shal not lye, till after the first coke.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 105 This is the foule fiend fliberdegibek, hee begins at curphew, and walks till the first cocke . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 23 We were carowsing till the second Cock . View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 337 They sup'd, and were iouiall, and at the first Cocke went foorth to the woode.
1782 J. Jackson Eldred v. 104 Brennus. Who had the watch last night? Eliud. Till the third cock, My Lord, 'twas mine.
1843 H. W. Longfellow Spanish Student i. iv. 36 Here we are, half-way to Alcalá, between cocks and midnight.
1971 K. Awoonor This Earth, my Brother i. 11 Anakpo, the leader of the family cult house, opened the fetish hut at the second cock.
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