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单词 cockboat
释义

Definition of cockboat in English:

cockboat

nounˈkɒkbəʊt
  • A small boat towed behind a larger vessel.

    (尤指沿海或沿河)大船后拖曳的小船

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously.
    • The captain was about to head back to the cockboat when he felt a small hand reaching towards his purse.
    • The United States should act alone, he declared, rather than ‘come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war.’

Origin

Late Middle English: from obsolete cock 'small boat' (from Old French coque, based on Latin caudex, codex 'block of wood') + boat.

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