[f. CROW v. + -ER.] A cock that crows; also transf. and fig. one who crows.

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1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., IV. (1586), 158. Cocks … good wakers and crowers.

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1864.  Daily Tel., 24 Aug., 5/4. Its [Orange party’s] members are, without exception, the loudest crowers I ever heard.

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