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cockpit en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈkɒkˌpɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɑkˌpɪt/ (General-American)

Etymology

Compound of cock (“rooster”) + pit.

Meanings

  1. (historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.
    • A cockpit, which was still used for cock-fighting during the Napoleonic Wars, used to occupy the site of the vicarage. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 224, about Heptonstall:
    • I obſerv'd a Place where there had been a Fire made, and a Circle dug in the Earth, like a Cockpit, where it is ſuppoſed the Savage Wretches had ſat down to their inhumane Feaſtings upon the Bodies of their Fellow-Creatures. 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 194–195:
    • Cockfighting has been banned during the virus outbreak. Before the pandemic, it was allowed only in licensed cockpits on Sundays and legal holidays, as well as during local fiestas lasting a maximum of three days[…] 2020 October 28, “Police officer raiding illegal cockfight gets killed by rooster”, in BBC News:
  2. (broadly, obsolete) A theater or other entertainment venue.
    • The Cockpit or Phoenix Theatre in Drury Lane stood in the parish of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, on what is now Pitt-place—properly Cockpit-place or Alley. 1643, The Actor's Remonstrance or Complaint, for the silencing of their Profession and banishment from their several Play-houses, page 2:
    • But pardon, and gentles all, / The flat unraised spirits that have dared / On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth / So great an object: can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France? or may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt? 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, prologue]:
  3. (figuratively) A site of conflict; a battlefield.
    • Hungary is become the onely Cockpit of the World, where the Turkes doe strive to gain, and the Christians at the charge of the Emperor of Germany (who entituleth himselfe King of Hungary) doe labour to repulse them: and few summers do passe, but that something is either wonne or lost by either party. 1624, George Abbot (bishop), A Briefe Description of the Whole World, wherein is particularly described all the Monarchies, Empires and Kingdoms of the same, with their Academies, page 74:
    • India became the cockpit in which it was shown that trade was war carried on under another name. 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 170:
  4. (vulgar) The vagina.
    • If then the stone, as doctors tell the story, / Be a disease that prove hereditory, / I trust her daughter will have so much wit, / Early to get a cock for her cock-pit; / And rather then be barren; play the whore, / As her great mother hath done heretofore. 1658, John Eliot, Poems, London: Henry Brome:
    • […] [S]o that her thighs duly diſclos'd, and elevated, laid open all the outward proſpect of the treaſury of love: the roſe-lipt ouverture preſenting the cock-pit ſo fair, that it was not in nature even for a natural to miſs it: […] 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the Second]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume II, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 191:
  5. (Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.
    • The grand object of a Maroon chief in war was to take a ſtation in ſome glen, or, as it is called in the Weſt Indies, Cockpit, encloſed by rocks and mountains nearly perpendicular, and to which the only practicable entrance is by a very narrow defile. 1803, R. C. Dallas, Esq., The History of the Maroons: […] , volume 1, London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, →OCLC, page 39:

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cockpit en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈkɒkˌpɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɑkˌpɪt/ (General-American)

Etymology

Either the same as above or from compound of cock (“boat”) + pit, where the first element is also found in cockboat and coxswain.

Meanings

  1. (historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.
  2. A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
  3. The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).
  4. The compartment in an aircraft or spacecraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled.
    • Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines / Remove all the wheel blocks, there's no time to waste 1984, Steve Harris, “Aces High”, in Powerslave, performed by Iron Maiden:
  5. (figuratively) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control.

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Deriveds

greenhouse cockpit · cockpit recorder · cockpit voice recorder · cockpitted · bathtub cockpit · glass cockpit

Descendants

κόκπιτ · cockpit · cockpit · Cockpit · コックピット · cockpit · kokpit · cockpit · kokpit · cockpit

Synonyms

office · flight deck

Translations (64)

de Führungskanzel (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · de Pilotenkabine (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · hu pilótafülke (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · ja コックピット (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · pt cabine de pilotagem (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · nl cockpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · ja 操縦席 (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · it cabina di comando (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · da førerkabine (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · ro cabină de pilotaj (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · ro carlingă (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · id ruang pilot (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · ru каби́на (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · gl carlinga (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · mn ᠨᠢᠰᠦᠭᠴᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠺᠠᠪᠢᠨ (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · es cabina (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · fi ohjaamo (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · sv cockpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · he תא־הטייס (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · de Pilotenkanzel (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · el κόκπιτ (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · mn ᠵᠢᠯᠣᠭᠣᠳᠬᠤ ᠥᠷᠥᠭᠡ (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · sv förarkabin (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · it cabina di pilotaggio (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · bg рулева рубка (nautical: well, where the helm is) · cs kokpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · he קוֹקְפִּיט (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · pl kabina pilotów (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · nb cockpit (nautical: well, where the helm is) · fr cockpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · fi sitloora (nautical: well, where the helm is) · mk пи́лотска каби́на (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · nn cockpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · it abitacolo (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · el πιλοτήριο (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · io kabino (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · it pozzetto (nautical: well, where the helm is) · mn нисэгчийн бүхээг (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · fi istuinkaukalo (nautical: well, where the helm is) · mn нисэгчийн кабин (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · da cockpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · rgn abitàcol (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · ko 조종석 (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · da cockpit (nautical: well, where the helm is) · tr kokpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · cmn 座艙 /座舱 (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · nb cockpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · es carlinga (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · mn жолоодох өрөө (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · sw dungu (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · he קוֹקְפִּיט (nautical: well, where the helm is) · mn ᠨᠢᠰᠦᠭᠴᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠪᠦᠬᠡᠭᠡᠭ (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · de Cockpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · bg пилотска кабина (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · pl kokpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · fr cabine de pilotage (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · vi buồng lái (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · nn cockpit (nautical: well, where the helm is) · de Flugzeugkanzel (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · ca cabina (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · is stjórnklefi (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · cmn 駕駛艙 /驾驶舱 (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · ms kokpit (area from which the pilot controls an aircraft) · sv sittbrunn (nautical: well, where the helm is)