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† ˈcubbridge head Obs. Naut.
Also cubridge-, couperidge-, copperidge-. Also cobridge-head.
A partition or bulkhead across the forecastle and the half-deck of a ship.
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 218 What with our cubridge heads, one answering the other..it was impossible to take us. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 11 [Those bulkheads] which doth make close the fore-castle, and the halfe Decke, the Mariners call the Cubbridge heads, wherein are placed murtherers [guns], and abaft Falcons..to cleare the Decks fore and aft. a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 346/1 The Couperidge-Head. Ibid. 357/1 With a Half Deck, Fore-Castle and Copperidge-heads. |