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cockboat

cockboat noun: a small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.

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
    • The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!1874, Marcus Clarke, “Chapter V”, in For the Term of His Natural Life
    Synonyms:
    dinghy

cockboat meaning in Tamil

cockboat in Tamil

கப்பலைச்சேர்ந்த சிறு படகு, உறுதியான கட்டமைப்பில்லாத சிறு படகு

Synonyms of cockboat

Forms of cockboat

pluralcockboats
alternative formcock-boat
alternative formcockleboat

Origin of cockboat

From cog (“a small boat”).

Questions about cockboat

What does cockboat mean?
Cockboat means a small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.
What is cockboat in Tamil?
Cockboat in Tamil is கப்பலைச்சேர்ந்த சிறு படகு, உறுதியான கட்டமைப்பில்லாத சிறு படகு. See Cockboat meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cockboat?
Cockboat is a noun.
What is the plural of cockboat?
The plural of cockboat is cockboats.

Words near cockboat in the dictionary

  1. cockblockee
  2. cockblocker
  3. cockblockers
  4. cockblocking
  5. cockblocks
  6. cockboat
  7. cockboats
  8. cockbrain
  9. cockbrained
  10. cockbrains
  11. cockbreath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cockboat (page history and authors); cockboat (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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