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Cock Robin initially rose to dance (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rooster

'cock' is the definition.
(I know that cock can be written as rooster)

'robin initially rose to dance' is the wordplay.
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
'dance' indicates an anagram.
The first letter of 'robin' is 'r'.
'rose'+'to'='roseto'
'roseto' with letters rearranged gives 'ooster'.
'r'+'ooster'='ROOSTER'

(Other definitions for rooster that I've seen before include "Adult male chicken" , "Male hen" , "Adult male domestic fowl" , "Farmyard fowl" , "Male domestic fowl (US)" .)

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