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Definition of Cockboats
1. cockboat [n] - See also: cockboat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockboats
Literary usage of Cockboats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"'Ware, cockboats, 'ware ! If you should cross The bows of the Government Launch
... cockboats conceive St. Stephen's stream When the big boat comes with the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"But we are told that the yacht clubs are idle things, and worse than useless ;
that they are mere child's play, mere cockboats, that keep the sea only in ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... of an hundred And thirty tight, tall sail; the most of them Seeming like
castles built upon the sea. Med. And what can all their barges, cockboats, ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1851)
"... of an hundred And thirty tight, tall sail; the most of them Seeming like
castles built upon the sea. Med. And what can all their barges, cockboats, ..."
5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"Regarding the president as a ' melancholy parrot,' a dawdling dilettante who
scrawled on the back of public documents or made cockboats of state papers at ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"... and Niagaras in the world are mere cockboats. An iron bull of the burden of
23000 tons, nearly 700 feet long, and 60 high, will meet his eye—the hull of ..."
7. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1904)
"Its mighty influences will either enlarge or petrify the heart:— raise the noble
soul, or drive the narrow spirit into the cockboats, and creeks of the ..."
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