cockscrow
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English cokkes crowe; equivalent to cock + -s- + crow.
Noun
[edit]cockscrow (plural not attested)
- The crowing of a cock.
- 1872, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone:
- What a goodly noise they kept, what a flapping of their wings, and a jerking of their tails, as they stood right up and tried with a whistling in their throats to imitate a cockscrow!