Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as cockcrow.

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  • noun The crowing sound of a cock.
  • noun cockcrow; daybreak

Etymologies

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cock +‎ crowing

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Examples

  • Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • A small trap in the path, baited with a mouse, to catch spotted cats (F. Genetta), is usually the first indication that we are drawing near to a village; but when we get within the sounds of pounding corn, cockcrowing, or the merry shouts of children at play, we know that the huts are but a few yards off, though the trees conceal them from view.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

    Mark 13. 1999

  • If the phrase the cockcrowing be to be taken in this sense, then however we see that the people were assembled together before morning light: and yet I do not doubt but it ought to be rendered the cockcrowing, which might be made clear by many good proofs, if there were place or leisure for it.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The Jewish doctors distinguished the cockcrowing into the first, second, and third.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Mark 13: 35, that space after cockcrowing is called the morning.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • And thus our Saviour meets with the arrogance of Peter, foretelling him that he should not have the courage he so confidently assumed to himself, but should within the time and space of cockcrowing deny him thrice.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The Misna on which this Gloss is hath these words; "Every day they remove the ashes from the altar about cockcrowing; but on the day of atonement at midnight," &c.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • But it is not so; but it amounts to this sense, "Within the time of cockcrowing" thou shalt deny me thrice; for

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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