cockboat

[ kok-boht ]

noun

a small boat, especially one used as a tender.

Origin of cockboat

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

Also cockleboat.

Words Nearby cockboat

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How to use cockboat in a sentence

Before the cockboat reached the point he had fallen, first to his knee, then prone upon the sand.
Sir Mortimer | Mary Johnston
When they had rounded once more the wooded point they saw the Sea Wraith, and drawn up upon the sand its cockboat.
Sir Mortimer | Mary Johnston
"In for a lamb, in for a sheep," thought I, and began to back the cockboat towards the corner where the dinghy lay.
Poison Island | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
The fellow came down the creek, cool as you please, and pulling a nice easy stroke, in Harry's cockboat.
Poison Island | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
It might as well be called the ship, with the cockboat astern.
The Book of Coniston | William Gershom Collingwood

British Dictionary definitions for cockboat

cockboat

cockleboat (ˈkɒkəlˌbəʊt)

/ (ˈkɒkˌbəʊt) /

noun

any small boat

Origin of cockboat

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

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