To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters.
W. Black.
Cock"loft` (?; 115) n. [Prop., a loft where cocks roost.] An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.
Cock"mas`ter (?), n. One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.
Cock"match` (?), n. A cockfight.
Cock"ney (k&obreve;k"n&ybreve;), n.; pl. Cockneys (- n&ibreve;z). [OE. cocknay, cokenay, a spoiled child, effeminate person, an egg; prob. orig. a cock's egg, a small imperfect egg; OE. cok cock + nay, neye, for ey egg (cf. Newt), AS. Šg. See 1st Cock, Egg, n.] 1. An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592).
This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
Shak.