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Cockpit
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- 1 A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting. historical
"I obſerv'd a Place where there had been a Fire made, and a Circle dug in the Earth, like a Cockpit, where it is ſuppoſed the Savage Wretches had ſat down to their inhumane Feaſtings upon the Bodies of their Fellow-Creatures."
- 2 The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay. historical
- 3 compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft wordnet
- 4 A theater or other entertainment venue. broadly, obsolete
"But pardon, and gentles all, / The flat unraised spirits that have dared / On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth / So great an object: can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France? or may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt?"
- 5 A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
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- 6 seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car wordnet
- 7 A site of conflict; a battlefield. figuratively
"Hungary is become the onely Cockpit of the World, where the Turkes doe strive to gain, and the Christians at the charge of the Emperor of Germany (who entituleth himselfe King of Hungary) doe labour to repulse them: and few summers do passe, but that something is either wonne or lost by either party."
- 8 The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).
- 9 a pit for cockfights wordnet
- 10 The vagina. vulgar
"If then the stone, as doctors tell the story, / Be a disease that prove hereditory, / I trust her daughter will have so much wit, / Early to get a cock for her cock-pit; / And rather then be barren; play the whore, / As her great mother hath done heretofore."
- 11 The compartment in an aircraft or spacecraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled.
"Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines / Remove all the wheel blocks, there's no time to waste"
- 12 A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes. Jamaica
"The grand object of a Maroon chief in war was to take a ſtation in ſome glen, or, as it is called in the Weſt Indies, Cockpit, encloſed by rocks and mountains nearly perpendicular, and to which the only practicable entrance is by a very narrow defile."
- 13 An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control. figuratively
Etymology
Compound of cock (“rooster”) + pit.
Either the same as above or from compound of cock (“boat”) + pit, where the first element is also found in cockboat and coxswain.
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