dawn
[ C ]
the sound of a cock(= a male chicken)crowing(= making a sound): 公鸡的啼叫
I heard a cockcrow.我听见一声鸡鸣。
She kept him talking until cockcrow.
We rise at cockcrow.
She works from cockcrow until dusk.
The priests drag me out of bed at the first cockcrow.
What did that cockcrow mean?

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Examples of cockcrow

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She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.
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Boarding a ship's nothing, but to dig a grave on the land before cockcrow, with the man you're to put in it looking at you!
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The epistles shall be ready by night, and you shall ride at cockcrow.
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At cockcrow came the call which in that orchard was now as familiar as the rooster's.
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After the second cockcrow, since dawn was not now far away, we fell to talking of the future.
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She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.
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All times were not equal; sometimes he came at cockcrow, or near to it, before or after it.
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At the first cockcrow the witches ceased to dance.
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Everything cleared up till there wasn't a grain left by cockcrow.
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But that was to be expected at cockcrow.
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They were the children of superstition and imagination, and they vanished with cockcrow and daylight, leaving no trace behind in his memory.
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Crofts protested in a doddering collapse, and vanished like a ghost at cockcrow.
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After midnight his holiness might sleep till the morning cockcrow if he thought proper.
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We all have to start at cockcrow in the morning.
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Her laugh--in effect, not in resonance--was like cockcrow.
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