Dictionary

cockboat en · NOUN

Etymology

From cog (“a small boat”).

Meanings

1. A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.
   • 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! 1874, Marcus Clarke, “Chapter V”, in For the Term of His Natural Life:
   • Haue care, I pray, to guide the cock-bote well, / Least worse on sea then vs on land befell. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

Synonyms

dinghy

Translations (3)

fi jolla (a small boat) · el λέμβος (a small boat) · grc λέμβος (a small boat)