Middle English Dictionary Entry
cok n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | cok n.(2) Also cokke, coke. Pl. cokkes. |
| Etymology | AF coque (corresp. to CF coche). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. cogge n.(1).
1.
(a) A ship's boat, cockboat; also = cogge (1); (b) cokswain, an officer in charge of a cockboat and its crew, coxswain.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1319) Pat.R.Edw.II373 : Le Cockjohan. ]
- [ (1336) Close R.Edw.III692 : La Cok Edward. ]
- (1338) Doc.in Nicolas Navy 2475 : [A ship] sanz rother, helme, & cokke, ove un batell.
- (1390) Will York in Sur.Soc.4139 : Unam navem..cum le cok et batella.
- (a1400) Oath Bk.Colchester7 : A Mast for cokks and botes.
- (1420) *For.Acc.(PRO) 3 Hen.VI K/2b [OD col.] : In..j parua batella vocata Coke; X Remis pro eodem Coke.
- (1420) in NQ ser.11.11 ()429b : Una [navis] cum batello et cokbote.
- c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 27.17 : Vneþe myghte we gete þo kokbote: and whanne þis was hade away, þei vsed helpinge, byndande þo schippe.
- 1436 *Acc.Exch.K.R.53/5.lf.16b [OD col.] : De Batello vocato Cok.
- (1443) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2238 : There went to londe, under truze, v men..with their cokbote.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Cock (Hrl 2255)74 : Atwen a ship with a large seyl And a cokboot that goth in Tempse lowe [etc.].
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)366 : In botes and cogges [vr. cockes].
b
- (1327) Pat.R.Edw.III207 : John Cokeswayne.
- (1463) Acc.Howard in RC 57219 : Item, gevyn the sayd day to the cokswaynne in almesce, j d.