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Definition of Cockboat
1. n. A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.
Definition of Cockboat
1. Noun. (nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockboat
1. a small boat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockboat
Literary usage of Cockboat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"cockboat. Cocket-bread, hard sea-biscuit. mariners for having paid custom —Cock-boat.
... cockboat. Cogs. The coges or cogs of a mill-wheel, ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"The bone which incases and defends the brain ; the arched bone of the head ; a
small boat; a cockboat. SCULLCAP, (skul'-kap) n. «. A headpiece ; a nightcap. ..."
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