cockboats

In such cockboats did these old heroes brave the unknown seas.

Westward Ho! 2007

The camels tripped and stumbled, tossing their litters like cockboats in a short sea; at times the

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

We sailed no master-galleon, but wrought in cockboats all,

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

North Pole to Cathay through snow, and storm, and ice, in such miserable little cockboats!

Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

In such cockboats did these old heroes brave the unknown seas.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

Such weather as would set all hands to the pumps aboard one of your fresh-water cockboats, and set the purser to his wits 'ends to stow away, for the use of the ship's company, the casks and casks full of blue water as would come powering in over the gunnel!

The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841

"Of all the impudent little cockboats of boys you are about the most cheeky.

Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870