"pullicide" meaning in English

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          "text": "Verily, I put myself in mind of Gay's sick fox, who, after preaching to his young kin against pullicide, cries, […] A chicken, too, might do me good.",
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          "text": "[…] was also given to \"gallicide,\" \"pullicide,\" and every kind of 'cide, and a good deal of Warre's correspondence is full of apologies for the misdeeds of both dogs.",
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          "text": "In one of the more broadly comic touches, for example, Cicero illustrates the Stoic claim that all crimes are equal by equating parricide with untimely pullicide: \"And the man who strangles a poultry-cock when it is not necessary does no less wrong than the man who strangles his father\"",
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