cock-boat

Then, making the cock-boat fast to the coast and leaving one therein to guard it, they fared on into the island, where they found abundance of fruits of all colours and ate of them till they were satisfied.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Sayf al-Muluk and some of his servants, who saved themselves in a little cock-boat.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Harrákta.” here used in the sense of smaller craft, and presently for a cock-boat.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then lay him in a cock-boat and row out with him in front of my palace, where thou wilt see me sitting at the lattice.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He that erst marched like Xerxes with innumerable armies, as rich as Croesus, now shifts for himself in a poor cock-boat, is bound in iron chains, with Bajazet the Turk, and a footstool with Aurelian, for a tyrannising conqueror to trample on.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The one has sacrificed his crew; the other brings back his seamen in a cock-boat, and has lost the ship.

Lay Morals 2005

Tripoli and Tunis; so savage that, but a few weeks ago, they had gazed at the cock-boat, and wondered how long it would be growing to the size of the ship that was to take them to Alexandria.

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

At the same cabinet meeting, he said the United States should not “come in as a cock-boat in the wake of the British man-of-war.”

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

Round went the whole fleet of England on the other tack; and while a few tall pintas, Milton or Pen, still sailed a lonely course by the stars and their own private compass, the cock-boat, Pepys, must go about with the majority among "the stupid starers and the loud huzzas."

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

Mississippi was at flood, my "district" was especially exposed, and every little bayou capable of floating a cock-boat called loudly for forts and heavy guns.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor