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cock-boat

cock-boat is the alternative form of cockboat.

Meaning of cockboat

Noun

cockboat (plural cockboats)

  1. A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.
    • Haue care, I pray, to guide the cock-bote well, / Least worse on sea then vs on land befell.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    dinghy

Forms of cock-boat

pluralcock-boats

Questions about cock-boat

What is cock-boat the alternative form of?
Cock-boat is the alternative form of cockboat.

Words near cock-boat in the dictionary

  1. cock-and-pinch
  2. cock-and-pinches
  3. cock-bawd
  4. cock-bawds
  5. cock-biting
  6. cock-boat
  7. cock-boats
  8. cock-brained
  9. cock-cheese
  10. cock-crow
  11. cock-crows

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