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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cockbill .
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Examples
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Scraggs, so McGuffey reporting sufficient steam in the donkey to turn over the windlass, the anchor was raised and cockbilled, and the _Maggie_ hauled away on the hawser the instant Captain
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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His rig was that of a foreign sailor, and the large red cap he wore was cockbilled over his left ear, and all was set off with shaggy black whiskers.
Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877
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