cockerel

Converse of subject

• herald: Mornings are heralded by the local cockerel but he is never up too early!

Converse of object

• crow: Christmas morning between 3am and dawn men gathered at churches to sing carols until the cockerel crowed.
• have: Should you have a cockerel, you can be sure he will do his best to fertilize the eggs.
• hear: To hear a cockerel crowing as you set off to work is heralded as an omen of good luck for the day.
• keep: As a rule people keep surplus cockerels far too long.
• strut: He compared the image of a strutting cockerel with its fine feathers and the men dressed up to go out.
• steal: On the following day he charged him with stealing a young cockerel, value 3s 6d, from Edwin ANDERTON.

Preposition: on

• top: They would like, too, to crown the church tower with a cockerel on top.

Adjective modifier

• black: We'll never know, but the very next day a large black cockerel suddenly appeared and began attacking everyone in sight.
• old: Well, there was an old cockerel over there.
• golden: At its top it sports a golden cockerel, speared to act as a weather-vane, and also bedecked with ribbons.
• large: We'll never know, but the very next day a large black cockerel suddenly appeared and began attacking everyone in sight.
• white: I learned this first-hand when one of my brothers acquired a magnificent white cockerel and five sandy brown hens.
• French: So will the tricolore be flying high or will there be something for the French cockerel to crow about?

Modifies a noun

• crow: Where else in the U.S. do cockerels crow at the airport or chickens wander the streets?