chanticleer

noun

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chan·ti·cleer | \ ˌchan-tə-ˈklir

, ˌshan- \

Definition of chanticleer

chiefly literary

: rooster … now that that antisocial chanticleer has bitten the dust, the henhouse is as gentle and peaceful as a nunnery … — Science 83 — typically used like a proper name … to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.— Henry David ThoreauAs to poor Crusoe in the self-same sea, no saint's bell pealed forth the lapse of week or month; each day went by unchallenged; no chanticleer announced those sultry dawns, no lowing herds those poisonous nights.— Herman Melville