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Definition of Cockfight
1. Noun. A match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs.
Definition of Cockfight
1. n. A match or contest of gamecocks.
Definition of Cockfight
1. Noun. A contest, in a cockpit, between gamecocks fitted with cockspurs ¹
2. Verb. To participate in (as a rooster), or organize and run (as a gambler or bookie), a cockfighting event. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockfight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockfight
Literary usage of Cockfight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1858)
"A cockfight.—A Walk in the Suburbs.—Sunday Amusements.—Return to the City.
IN consequence of the convulsions and danger of the times, the city was dull, ..."
2. Manual of Physical Drill: United States Army by Edmund Luther Butts (1900)
"Games similar to the cockfight may be occasionally indulged in for the amusement
of the men, all of the men under instruction being divided into two ranks, ..."
3. Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster by Lancaster (England : Duchy). Court, Henry Fishwick (1896)
"James Carre says the said Sir Thomas would have gone down the lane towards the
cockfight, but was stopped by the said Sir John. ..."
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