rooster
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishBirdsroosterroost‧er /ˈruːstə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
HBBa male chicken SYN cock British EnglishExamples from the Corpusrooster• The editor had pushed his left sleeve up and Bernstein had seen a tattoo of a rooster.• Outside, a rooster crowed some way off, and right underneath her some one split kindling with a quick thunk thunk thunk.• The best Chianti has a black rooster on the label.• The average domestic rooster is considerably louder than other birds and is therefore the most noticeable at dawn.• A neighborhood rooster crows once and then twice and then falls silent.• Only sensation survived: being deafened by the rooster, yet finding silence unendurable.
HBBa male chicken SYN cock British EnglishExamples from the Corpusrooster• The editor had pushed his left sleeve up and Bernstein had seen a tattoo of a rooster.• Outside, a rooster crowed some way off, and right underneath her some one split kindling with a quick thunk thunk thunk.• The best Chianti has a black rooster on the label.• The average domestic rooster is considerably louder than other birds and is therefore the most noticeable at dawn.• A neighborhood rooster crows once and then twice and then falls silent.• Only sensation survived: being deafened by the rooster, yet finding silence unendurable.