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Definition: COCKBOAT |
COCKBOATNoun1. A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore. |
Date "COCKBOAT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Note: Cockboat \Cock"boat`\, noun. [See Cock boat.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cockboat or Cockle Boat.. A small boat made of a wicker frame, and covered with leather or oil-cloth. The Welsh fishers used to carry them on their backs. (Welsh, cwch, a boat; French, coche, a passage boat; Irish, coca; Italian, cocca; Norwegian, kog, a cockboat.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COCKBOAT |
| Etymologies containing "COCKBOAT": Coach. (references) |
| "COCKBOAT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COCKBOAT" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "COCKBOAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | varkë e vogël me rrema. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | малка корабна лодка (yawl). (various references) | |
Czech | pomocný èlun. (various references) | |
Farsi | کرجی کوچک . (various references) | |
Greek | ελαφρά λέμβοσ (coracle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vitorláshoz akasztott kis csónak. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockboatcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | barquinho (cockleboat, cockle-shell). (various references) | |
Romanian | barcã de pescuit. (various references) | |
Russian | судовая шлюпка (jolly boat, jolly-boat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brod za ukrcavanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | barco de cocina. (various references) | |
Swedish | liten båt (yawl), jolle (dingey, dinghy, jolly boat, skiff, tender, wherry, yawl). (various references) | |
Turkish | sandal (boat, cockleboat, dinghy, pinnace, rowing boat, sandal, small craft). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | корабельна шлюпка (dinghy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xu"ng nhỏ (skiff), thuyền nhỏ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COCKBOAT": cockboats. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-k-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: tobacco. | |
-3 letters: acock, coact, cocoa, taboo. | |
-4 letters: back, boat, bock, book, boot, bota, coat, coca, coco, cook, coot, kobo, koto, tack, taco, took. | |
-5 letters: abo, act, bat, boa, boo, bot, cab, cat, cob, coo, cot, kab, kat, koa, kob, oak, oat, oca, oka, oot, tab, tao, too. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-k-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: cockboats. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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