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
- : 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.
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