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cockbills

cockbills is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 cockbills

What is cockbills the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cockbills is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cockbill.

Words near cockbills in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cockbills (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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