Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COCK'-FIGHT, or COCK'-FIGHT-ING
COCK'-FIGHT, or COCK'-FIGHT-ING, n.
A match or contest of cocks; a barbarous sport of the ancients and moderns, in which cocks are set to fight with each other, till one or the other is conquered. – Bacon. Addison.
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