Cockpits [noun]

George, duke of Albemarle, captain-general of his majesty's forces, died at the cockpit.

The yacht nearly broached to, while the next oncoming wave broke fairly aboard, filling the cockpit half-full of water.

Then a wave would come aboard astern, rolling in and nearly filling the cockpit.

A very important fitting is a hatch by which the cockpit can be completely covered in in heavy weather.

The last occasion on which any part of Belgium, so long the 'Cockpit of Europe,' had a glimpse of war was in the autumn of 1870.

He had by this time finished his bailing, and the cockpit floor was fairly free of water.

When they had lightened her sufficiently, two of them sprang over into the cockpit and bailed to better advantage there.

They carried in the cockpit their Mackinaw jackets and their winter caps.

I found myself sitting in a little cockpit strapped to a comfortable seat.

In another little cockpit about four feet aft sat the pilot.