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cockboats

cockboats is the plural 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

Questions about cockboats

What is cockboats the plural of?
Cockboats is the plural of cockboat.

Words near cockboats in the dictionary

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

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