rooster• So the laundress was grateful; she had killed a rooster for him.• The editor had pushed his left sleeve up and Bernstein had seen a tattoo of a rooster.• Outside, a roostercrowed some way off, and right underneath her some one splitkindling with a quick thunk thunk thunk.• The best Chianti has a black rooster on the label.• The averagedomesticrooster is considerably louder than other birds and is therefore the most noticeable at dawn.• A neighborhood rooster crows once and then twice and then falls silent.• Only sensationsurvived: being deafened by the rooster, yet finding silenceunendurable.