Definitions
adult male chicken
Word origin
From roost + -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance.
Used in a sentence
“Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.”
“The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.”
“Chalk a circle for a rooster.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Barnyard crower”7 letters
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