a rooster of a fighting breed, or one bred and trained for fighting
Word origin
[1670–80; game1 + cock1]This word is first recorded in the period 1670–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cohesion, kink, plan, splutter, template
Examples of 'gamecock' in a sentence
gamecock
This process may be strictly compared with the slow and gradual improvement of the racehorse, greyhound, and gamecock.
Charles Darwin The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 2 (1868). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)