Meaning of cockboat | Babel Free
Definitions
A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.
Examples
“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!”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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