cockscrow en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle English cokkes crowe; equivalent to cock + -s- + crow.
Meanings
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(no-plural) The crowing of a cock.
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!
1872, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone: