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cockleboat

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cock⋅le⋅boat

  [kok-uhl-boht]
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–noun
cockboat.
Origin:
1615–25; cockle 1 + boat

cock⋅boat

  [kok-boht]
–noun
a small boat, esp. one used as a tender.
Also, cockleboat.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME cokboot, var. of cogboot, equiv. to cog boat, ship (akin to ON kuggi small ship) + boot boat
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cock·boat   (kŏk'bōt')   
n.  A small rowboat, especially one used to ferry supplies from ship to shore. Also called cockleboat.

[Middle English cokboot : cok, cockboat (from Anglo-Norman coque, probably ultimately from Latin caudica, from caudex, caudic-, tree trunk) + boot, boat; see boat.]
cock·le·boat   (kŏk'əl-bōt')   
n.  See cockboat.
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