cockboat

[ kok-boht ]

noun

1. a small boat, especially one used as a tender.

cockboat

/ ˈkɒkəlˌbəʊt; ˈkɒkˌbəʊt /

noun

1. any small boat

Word History and Origins

Origin of cockboat¹

1400–50; late Middle English cokboot, variant of cogboot, equivalent to cog boat, ship (akin to Old Norse kuggi small ship) + boot boat

Word History and Origins

Origin of cockboat¹

C15 cokbote, perhaps ultimately from Late Latin caudica dug-out canoe, from Latin caudex tree trunk

Example Sentences

Before the cockboat reached the point he had fallen, first to his knee, then prone upon the sand.

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When they had rounded once more the wooded point they saw the Sea Wraith, and drawn up upon the sand its cockboat.

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"In for a lamb, in for a sheep," thought I, and began to back the cockboat towards the corner where the dinghy lay.

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The fellow came down the creek, cool as you please, and pulling a nice easy stroke, in Harry's cockboat.

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It might as well be called the ship, with the cockboat astern.

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