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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(nautical) 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.
The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!
Use cockboat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cockboat means (nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore..
Common synonyms include dinghy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Haue care, I pray, to guide the cock-bote well, / Least worse on sea then vs on land befell.
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