Word: cocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mate in evidence. On the roof just over the window was a half-finished nest with a pile of unused material beside it. We had a theory that in the spring when the house was building, the mate had been caught and died inside, and that the cock robin was obsessed with the thought of getting inside to look for her, but when we opened the window he shifted his attack to the upper panes. We were forced to the unhappy conclusion that the robin was cuckoo...
...Kansas City last week the cock robin which has been attacking its own reflection in a window pane was still at it (TIME, March 27). Its mate was supplying it regularly with fat worms, big bugs. Once it fell upon a blue jay which appeared in the yard, drove it away. Apparently wearied by this diversion the cock robin retreated for a few hours to a telephone wire. As the 17th day passed its attacks grew less & less vicious...
...Cock Robin...
...Kansas City last week a cock robin, undeterred by shouts and lowerings of the shade, was slowly weakening as it passed its tenth day of attacking its own reflection in a windowpane...
...three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...