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cockboat

/kok-boht/US // ˈkɒkˌboʊt //UK // (ˈkɒkˌbəʊt) //

公鸡船,公仔船,公鸡艇,公务船

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small boat, especially one used as a tender.

Examples

  • Before the cockboat reached the point he had fallen, first to his knee, then prone upon the sand.

  • When they had rounded once more the wooded point they saw the Sea Wraith, and drawn up upon the sand its cockboat.

  • "In for a lamb, in for a sheep," thought I, and began to back the cockboat towards the corner where the dinghy lay.

  • The fellow came down the creek, cool as you please, and pulling a nice easy stroke, in Harry's cockboat.

  • It might as well be called the ship, with the cockboat astern.