cockboatn.

Brit.

/ˈkɒkbəʊt/, U.S.

/ˈkɑkˌboʊt/

Forms: see cock n.⁴ and boat n.¹; also 1600s cauke bote (perhaps English regional (Essex)).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cock n.⁴, boat n.¹

Etymology: < cock n.⁴ + boat n.¹ Compare cog boat n. at cog n.¹ Compounds (and the discussion at cog n.¹).

Now chiefly historical.

A small or light boat, esp. one carried on board or towed behind a larger vessel. Sometimes used as the type of the smallest or lightest floating craft. Also in figurative contexts.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > types of

float-boat1322

cocka1400

cockboat1413

longboat1421

cogc1430

cog boat1440

espyne1487

jolywat1495

barge1530

fly-boat1598

gondola1626

cocket-boat1668

yawl1670

whale-boat1682

pinnace1685

launch1697

jolly-boat1728

cutter1745

gig1790

pram1807

jolly1829

whaler1893

1413 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 88 [A boat called a] cokbote.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 815 A ship with a large seyl, And a cokboot that goth in Tempse lowe.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aiv^v The little Cock-boat is safe, when it is hoised into a tall ship.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. D4 Neuer caring..what becoms of the shippe of Estates, so they may saue themselues in the Cockeboat of their owne fortune.

1755 H. Walpole Let. 29 Sept. in Corr. (1960) XX. 500 We take, from men of war and Domingo-men, down to colliers and cockboats.

1826 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. June 723/1 It was certainly too much to allow this terrible individual, in his cock-boat, to chase our cruizers, as he seems to have done.

1861 Times 23 Sept. 6/4 The Americans got the better of us by building frigates of unprecedented size and solidity, but the finest of them all was but a cockboat compared with the Warrior.

2014 A. Salmond First Contact 15 The Zeehaen's skipper sent his cockboat back to his vessel to warn the second mates to be on their guard.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cockboat
释义	cockboatn. Brit. /ˈkɒkbəʊt/, U.S. /ˈkɑkˌboʊt/ Forms: see cock n.⁴ and boat n.¹; also 1600s cauke bote (perhaps English regional (Essex)). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cock n.⁴, boat n.¹ Etymology: < cock n.⁴ + boat n.¹ Compare cog boat n. at cog n.¹ Compounds (and the discussion at cog n.¹). Now chiefly historical. A small or light boat, esp. one carried on board or towed behind a larger vessel. Sometimes used as the type of the smallest or lightest floating craft. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > types of float-boat1322 cocka1400 cockboat1413 longboat1421 cogc1430 cog boat1440 espyne1487 jolywat1495 barge1530 fly-boat1598 gondola1626 cocket-boat1668 yawl1670 whale-boat1682 pinnace1685 launch1697 jolly-boat1728 cutter1745 gig1790 pram1807 jolly1829 whaler1893 1413 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 88 [A boat called a] cokbote. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 815 A ship with a large seyl, And a cokboot that goth in Tempse lowe. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aiv^v The little Cock-boat is safe, when it is hoised into a tall ship. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. D4 Neuer caring..what becoms of the shippe of Estates, so they may saue themselues in the Cockeboat of their owne fortune. View more context for this quotation 1755 H. Walpole Let. 29 Sept. in Corr. (1960) XX. 500 We take, from men of war and Domingo-men, down to colliers and cockboats. 1826 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. June 723/1 It was certainly too much to allow this terrible individual, in his cock-boat, to chase our cruizers, as he seems to have done. 1861 Times 23 Sept. 6/4 The Americans got the better of us by building frigates of unprecedented size and solidity, but the finest of them all was but a cockboat compared with the Warrior. 2014 A. Salmond First Contact 15 The Zeehaen's skipper sent his cockboat back to his vessel to warn the second mates to be on their guard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1413
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