OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3678

rooster

/ˈɹuːstə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gallo
A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.
Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.
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