sea-cockn.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > member of family Cancridae (rock crab)
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punger1586
marble crab1668
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rock crab1736
Cape lobster1793
partan-crab1893
Dungeness crab1896
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §2. 128 Sea cock. [Margin Cancer Heracleoticus.]
2. A local name applied to various birds, (a) in quot. 1684 perhaps the foolish or common guillemot, Uria troile; (b) the grey plover, Squatarola helvetica; (c) in Caithness ‘the puffin, Fratercula arctica’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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1684 R. Sibbald Scotl. Illustr. ii. iii. 22 Avis Marina Sea-Cock dicta.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 181 Grey plover..Sea cock (Waterford).
3. A name for species of gurnard (see quots.). [So French coq de mer, German seehahn, Dutch zeehaan.]
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Triglidae (gurnards) > genus Trigla > trigla cuculus (red gurnard)
rochet1345
cur1589
red fish1611
rocketa1655
red gurnarda1672
sea-cock1704
soldier1846
elleck1862
peeper1880
latchett1882
1704 tr. J. Nieuhof Voy. E.-Indies in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. II. 348 The Sea-Cock is a Fish of a very odd shape, more like a Sea-Monster than a Fish.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sea-cock, a species of gurnard (Trigla cuculus and T. hirax) much sought after by Russian epicures.
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 96 The Sapphirine Gurnard... In some European languages the..crowing noises which these fishes produce have gained for them the name of Sea Cocks.
4. jocularly. A bold sailor or sea-rover.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > bold sailor
sea-cock1865
1865 C. Kingsley Hereward iv, in Good Words Jan. 93/2 Such a gay young sea-cock does not come hither for nought.
1886 J. S. Corbett Fall of Asgard II. 2 They cried to one another how no young sea-cock ever crowed with truer ring.
5. In a marine steam-engine (see quot. 1858).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > valve or sea-cock
Kingston1837
sea-cock1855
sea-valve1895
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > valves
petcock1838
tail-valve1839
sea-cock1855
robinet1867
test-cock1877
Walschaerts1880
1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch II. 451 Sea-cock of a sea steam-engine (a cock placed on the pipe which goes from the boiler into the sea, through the side of the vessel).
1858 R. Murray Marine Engines (ed. 3) 29 It is better in the case of large engines to have two injection cocks fitted between the sea and each condenser,—one, the sea cock, close to the side of the vessel.
1895 Times 18 Mar. 7/4 The sea-cock was left open, and late at night the men on board were surprised to find the vessel gradually filling with water.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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