A small boat. Obsolete. rare.

(a) a small light or shallow boat (now rare); cf. sense 2b, cockboat, n.; (b) a boat used for gathering or harvesting cockles.

a boat resembling a peapod (cf. pea pod, n. 2).

Originally and chiefly Scottish. A (small) boat.

Any of various kinds of small boat used as a tender, tow-boat, etc., esp. in a port.

Any small object or contrivance; spec. a small boat (perhaps a corrupt form of dinghy, n.) or a small locomotive. Chiefly U.S. (in spelling dinkey).

A small shallow boat, canoe, etc.; = cockleshell, n. 3. Cf. cockle boat n. (a) at compounds 3. Obsolete.

spec. A small, manœuvrable craft sent out from a larger vessel, as in cases of emergency at sea.