英语词汇“cockboat”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cockboat

/ˈkɒkbəʊt

noun

A small boat towed behind a larger vessel.He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously....

The captain was about to head back to the cockboat when he felt a small hand reaching towards his purse.
The United States should act alone, he declared, rather than ‘come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war.’

Late Middle English: from obsolete cock 'small boat' (from Old French coque, based on Latin caudex, codex 'block of wood') + boat.

单词	cockboat
释义	cockboat /ˈkɒkbəʊt / noun A small boat towed behind a larger vessel.He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously.... The captain was about to head back to the cockboat when he felt a small hand reaching towards his purse. The United States should act alone, he declared, rather than ‘come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war.’ Origin Late Middle English: from obsolete cock 'small boat' (from Old French coque, based on Latin caudex, codex 'block of wood') + boat.
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