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cockbilled

cockbilled is the simple past and past participle of cockbill.

Meaning of cockbill

Verb

cockbill (third-person singular simple present cockbills, present participle cockbilling, simple past and past participle cockbilled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To tilt up one end of, so as to make almost vertical.
    • to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning
  2. (archaic, transitive) To suspend (the anchor) from the cathead im preparation for letting it go.

Questions about cockbilled

What is cockbilled the simple past and past participle of?
Cockbilled is the simple past and past participle of cockbill.

Words near cockbilled in the dictionary

  1. Cockayne syndrome
  2. Cockaynes
  3. cockbag
  4. cockbags
  5. cockbill
  6. cockbilled
  7. cockbilling
  8. cockbills
  9. cockbird
  10. cockbirds
  11. cockbiting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cockbilled (page history and authors); cockbill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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