Red cockerel

Red cockerel is a figurative expression for fire. Its compact, concrete image gives the dangerous force of a blaze the form of an animal, but the available evidence establishes the meaning without specifying a particular scene or further symbolic associations.

Meaning and Use

The expression is glossed directly as fire. It therefore functions as an indirect, image-based way of naming a blaze; no particular fire or additional use is identified in the evidence.