ˈcock-crow
= cock-crowing.
| c 1300 Beket 1090 A lute before the Cockes crowe. c 1450 Lonelich Grail lvi. 145 This same nyht atte ferst kok crowe. 1483 Cath. Angl. 70 Þ⊇ Cok crawe, gallicantus. c 1490 Promp. Parv. (MS. K.) 86 Cokcrow, tyme, gallicinium. 1595 Barnfield Ode (Arb.) 64 She..each morning (by Cocks crew) Showers downe her siluer dew. 1692 Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. v. (1851) 133 You disturb all people with your shitten Cock-crow; that's the only property in which you resemble a true Cock. 1798 Southey Well St. Keyne, From cock-crow he had been travelling. 1880 Goldw. Smith in Atl. Monthly No. 268. 208 The character would vanish like a ghost at cock-crow. |