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Date "COCK-CROW" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cock-crow The Hebrews divided the night into four watches: 1, The "beginning of the watches" or "even" (Lam. ii. 19); 2, "The middle watch" or "midnight" (Judg. vii. 19); 3, "The cock-crowing;" 4, "The morning watch" or "dawning" (Exod. xiv. 24). "Ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning."- Mark xiii. 35. The Romans divided the night into sixteen parts, each one hour and a-half, beginning at midnight. The third of these divisions (3 a.m.) they called gallicinium, the time when cocks begin to crow; the next was conticinium, when they ceased to crow; and fifth was diluculum, dawn. Probably the Romans sounded the hour on a trumpet (bugle) three times, and if so it would explain the diversity of the Gospels: "Before the cock crow" (John xiii. 38, Luke xxii. 34, and Matt. xxvi. 34); but "Before the cock crow twice " (Mark xiv. 30)- that is, before the "bugle" has finished sounding. Apparitions vanish at cock crow. This is a Christian superstition, the cock being the watch-bird placed on church spires, and therefore sacred. "The morning cock crew loud, And at the sound it [the Ghost] shrunk in haste away, And vanished from our sight." Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Language | Translations for "COCK-CROW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kukonlaulun aikaan (at cock-crow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ock-crowcay рассвет (break of day, dawn, daybreak, daylight, day-spring, peep of dawn, peep of day, peep of morning), когда начинают петь петухи, время (amount of time, close season, closed season, cockcrow, morrow, period, spell, time, time-of-day, while). (various references) lúc tảng sáng (daybreak), lúc g gáy. (various references) plygain (dawn, matins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cockcrow. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-k-o-o-r-w" | |
-3 letters: crock, crook. | |
-4 letters: cock, coco, cook, cork, croc, crow, rock, rook, work. | |
-5 letters: coo, cor, cow, kor, orc, roc, row, wok, woo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-c-k-o-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: cockcrows. | |
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