Cockboat

Quick meaning: Cockboat is a noun meaning (nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.

Meaning

(nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.

Example Sentences

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!

Word Forms

• cockboats
• cock-boat
• cockleboat

Synonyms for cockboat

Depending on context, synonyms include dinghy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cock-boat, cockleboat, bumboat, gunboat, catboat, logboat.

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