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cockleboat

cockleboat 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 cockleboat

pluralcockleboats

Questions about cockleboat

What is cockleboat the alternative form of?
Cockleboat is the alternative form of cockboat.

Words near cockleboat in the dictionary

  1. cocklairds
  2. cockle
  3. cockle wife
  4. cockle wives
  5. cockle-bread
  6. cockleboat
  7. cockleboats
  8. cocklebur
  9. cockleburr
  10. cockleburrs
  11. cockleburs

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