Rooster | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

rooster
The male of the domestic fowl; the cock. As if the flourish of the quill were the crowing of a roos...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
queer rooster
An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose