ˈcock-crowing
a. The crowing of a cock. b. The time when cocks crow, early dawn.
| 1382 Wyclif Mark xiii. 35 Whanne the lord of the hous cometh, in the euentide, or in the mydnyȝt, or kockis crowynge, or morwynge. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 86 Cokkrowynge tyme, gallicinium. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 130 b, In Winter you must feede them at the first Cockcrowing and againe when the daye begins to breake. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xiii. 40 An age which we may call the first cock-crowing after the midnight of Ignorance and Superstition. 1844 Emerson Yng. American Wks. (Bohn) II. 301 All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 59 Like the cock-crowing that sounded in the ears of Peter. |