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Definition: COCKBOAT

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Cockboat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1845. (references)

Note: Cockboat \Cock"boat`\, noun. [See Cock boat.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: COCKBOAT

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.

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Definition: COCKBOAT

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "COCKBOAT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1845. (references)

Note: Cockboat \Cock"boat`\, noun. [See Cock boat.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: COCKBOAT

DomainDefinition
LiteratureCockboat 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.

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