What's the difference between cockfight and cockspur?

Cockfight


Definition:

  • (n.) A match or contest of gamecocks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Animal fighting We’ve dramatically strengthened the nation’s legal framework against dogfighting and cockfighting , but additional fortifications are needed.
  • (2) Those with tickets to a bare-knuckle, cockfight massacre of an innocent were cheated.
  • (3) How much respect do we see in the conduct of national debates – on the economy, on Europe, and in the cockfight that is parliament?
  • (4) Our goal is to see cockfighting elevated to the same level in the few states that still penalize it as a misdemeanor.
  • (5) McConnell eventually won by 25 percentage points after a bitter and hard-fought contest, which included Bevin being embroiled in a cockfighting scandal.

Cockspur


Definition:

  • (n.) A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senior ITV executives, who did not attend Hunt's public briefing, must be delighted with the the new man at Cockspur Street.

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