Sentence:  A yerd she hadde, enclosed al aboute / With stikkes, and a drye dich with-oute, / In which she hadde a <WSD>cok</WSD>, hight Chauntecleer, / In al the land of crowing nas his peer. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (rooster) A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, "especially" a male domestic chicken ((noshow=1)).