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cockpit|ˈkɒkpɪt|
1. a. A pit or enclosed area in which game-cocks are set to fight for sport; a place constructed for cock-fighting.
1587Churchyard Worth. Wales (1876) 106 The Mountaynes stand..In roundnesse such as it a Cock pit were. 1644Quarles Barnabas & B. 27 At a cockpit [to] leave our doubtful fortunes to the mercy of unmerciful contention. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 195 A Circle dug in the Earth, like a Cockpit. 1814W. Sketchley (title), The Cocker, containing..a variety of other useful information for the instruction of those who are attendants at the Cock Pit. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Race Wks. (Bohn) II. 30 The animal ferocity of the quays and cockpits.
attrib.1647G. Hughes Serm. St. Margaret's, Westm. 26 May, Impious, childish, cockpit counsellors. 1884Pall Mall G. 3 Sept. 2/1 The cock-pit animus, apt to spring up between equal bodies in different camps.
†b. Applied to a theatre; and to the pit of a theatre. Obs.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. Prol. 11 Can this Cock-Pit hold The vastie fields of France? Or may we cramme Within this Woodden O, the very Caskes That did affright the Ayre at Agincourt? a1635L. Digges in Shaks. Suppl. I. 71 (N.) Let but Beatrice And Benedict be seen; lo! in a trice, The cockpit, galleries, boxes, all are full.
†c. spec. the Cockpit: (a) name of a theatre in London, in 17th c., on the site of a cock-pit. Obs.
a1635L. Digges in Shaks. Suppl. I. 71 (N.) On Gods name, may the Bull, or Cockpit have Your lame blank verse to keep you from the grave. 1660Pepys Diary 11 Oct., Mr. Salisbury..took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpitt to see ‘The Moore of Venice’, which was well done. 1662–3Ibid. 5 Jan., To the Cockpitt, where we saw ‘Claracilla’, a poor play, done by the King's house.
† (b) The name of the block of buildings on or near the site of the Cockpit erected by Henry VIII opposite Whitehall, London, used from the seventeenth century as government offices; hence put familiarly for ‘the Treasury’, and ‘the Privy Council chambers’. Obs.
[1598Stow Surv. Lond. 374 (in J. Marshall Ann. Tennis 65) The saide White hall. On the right hand bee diuers fayre Tennis courtes, bowling Allies, and a Cockepit, all built by King Henry the eight.] 1649–50Commons' Jrnl. 25 Feb. in Carlyle Cromwell II. 124 Resolved that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland have the use of the Lodgings called the Cockpit. 1659–60Pepys Diary 20 Feb., My Lord of Dorset and another Lord, talking of getting another place at the Cockpit. 1698Luttrell Brief Rel. IV. 329 The council chamber, treasury, and duke Shrewsbury's offices, are to be at the Cockpitt, till Whitehal be rebuilt. 1711R. Orlebar Let. in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. 276 a, Mar. 8..Just now I am told of an odd passage happened in Councill at the cockpitt to-night. 1773Burke Let. Sir C. Bingham Wks. IX. 140 For the sake of gratifying the schemes of a transitory Administration of the Cock⁓pit or the Castle. 1830Greville Mem. 22 Nov. (1874) II. xii. 70 He [Brougham] threatened to sit often at the Cockpit, in order to check Leach, who, though a good judge in his own Court, was good for nothing in a Court of Appeal. 1843Knight London V. 291 But to return to the Cock-pit..This is the part of the Treasury buildings which fronts Whitehall.
2. fig. A place where a contest is fought out.
1612T. Adams Serm., Gallants Burden (1616) 19 Behold France made a Cocke-pitte for Massacres by the vnciuill ciuill Warres hereof. 1676Marvell Gen. Councils Wks. 1875 IV. 117 It seemed like an ecclesiastical cock-pit, and a man might have laid wagers either way. 1858Murray's Hand-Bk. N. Germany 158/1 The part of Belgium through which our route lies, has been called the ‘Cock-pit’ of Europe.
3. a. Naut. The after part of the orlop deck of a man-of-war; forming ordinarily the quarters for the junior officers, and in action devoted to the reception and care of the wounded.
1706Phillips, Cockpit, in a man of war, is a Place on the lower Floor, or Deck. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Cock-pit of a ship of war, the apartments of the surgeon and his mates, being the place where the wounded men are dressed. 1813Southey Nelson II. 258 The cockpit was crowded with wounded and dying men; over whose bodies he was with some difficulty conveyed. 1833Marryat P. Simple x, Send him down to the surgeon in the cock-pit.
b. transf.
1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 375/1 Sitting in the cockpit of my canoe.
c. Aeronaut. In the fuselage of any kind of aircraft, or in the capsule of a space vehicle: the space occupied by a pilot, observer, astronaut, or (formerly) a passenger. Also attrib.
1914Rep. & Mem. (Advis. Comm. Aeronaut.) No. 112 There are several speed indicators..in which the pressure of the air in the cockpit is allowed to act on one side of the recording diagram. 1915Chambers's Jrnl. 1 July (Advt.), Pilot and passenger in separate cockpits arranged tandem fashion. 1917Blackw. Mag. Mar. 383/1 Several bullets ventilated the fuselage quite close to my cockpit. a1918McCudden Five Years R.F.C. (1919) 227 The observer disappeared into the cockpit apparently disabled. 1930Discovery Sept. 304/1 Wireless signals from directional beams are heard in the pilot's cockpit. 1945Aeronautics 54/2 Cockpit drill, which became an absolute necessity when the number of controls and instruments rose to double that of those incorporated in aircraft of a decade ago. 1962J. Glenn in Into Orbit 40 This is the cockpit, the real ‘opinion area’ of the capsule.
d. Motor Racing. The space in a racing car occupied by the driver.
1935Eyston & Lyndon Motor Racing iv. 40 Smoke poured from Nuvolari's cockpit, and he climbed from his seat. 1957S. Moss In Track of Speed ii. 20 He sat well back in the cockpit with his arms almost outstretched as they held the wheel. 1968Autocar 14 Mar. 41/2 We did a quick cockpit check, lights, horns, entered up the log book and pulled out of the station yard.
4. In the West Indies: see quot. 1803.
1803Dallas Hist. Maroons I. ii. 39 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. Ibid. I. vi. 198 The practicability of advancing upon an enemy in these cockpits is not to be judged of by other feats of war. |