[f. COCK sb.1 + -LING.] A young cock; a cockerel. Also fig.

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1580.  Sidney, Arcadia, II. (1622), 225. These coklings cockred we bewaile too late.

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1870.  Pall Mall Gaz., 15 Aug., 11/2. The young cocklings took to immaturely and prematurely imitating the crow of their seniors.

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