cockboat

[ kok-boht ]

/ ˈkɒkˌboʊt /

a small boat, especially one used as a tender.

Also cockleboat.

Origin of cockboat

1400–50; late Middle English cokboot, variant of cogboot, equivalent to cog boat, ship (akin to Old Norse kuggi small ship) + boot boat

We have put to sea in a cockboat, but we are quite prepared to rough it.

The Personal History of David Copperfield |Charles Dickens
"To send two old women to sea in a cockboat," Asgill replied.

The Wild Geese |Stanley John Weyman
The fellow came down the creek, cool as you please, and pulling a nice easy stroke, in Harry's cockboat.

Poison Island |Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
When they had rounded once more the wooded point they saw the Sea Wraith, and drawn up upon the sand its cockboat.

Sir Mortimer |Mary Johnston

He expects the return of the chalop, or cockboat, notwithstanding all appearances to the contrary.

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18) |John Dryden

cockboat

/ (ˈkɒkˌbəʊt) /

any small boat

C15 cokbote, perhaps ultimately from Late Latin caudica dug-out canoe, from Latin caudex tree trunk