cockpit

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cockpit (plural cockpits)

1. The space for those in control of a nautical, aeronautical, or astronautical vessel.
   • 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.

     Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines / Remove all the wheelblocks there's no time to waste

2. (obsolete, nautical) The compartment set aside for the care of wounded during naval engagements; the sickbay.
3. (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
4. An enclosure for cockfights.
5. (Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep slopes.[1]
   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 2, p. 39,

     The grand object of a Maroon chief in war was to take a station in some glen, or, as it is called in the West Indies, Cockpit, enclosed by rocks and mountains nearly perpendicular, and to which the only practicable entrance is by a very narrow defile.

• (control area of an airplane): flight deck, office

• cockpit voice recorder, cockpit recorder
• glass cockpit
• greenhouse cockpit

• Pitcock, cocktip

Borrowed from English cockpit.

cockpit m (plural cockpits)

1. cockpit

• “cockpit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From English cockpit.

cockpit m (definite singular cockpiten, indefinite plural cockpiter, definite plural cockpitene)

1. (aviation, nautical) a cockpit (of an aircraft or boat)

• “cockpit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English cockpit.

cockpit m (definite singular cockpiten, indefinite plural cockpitar, definite plural cockpitane)

1. (aviation, nautical) a cockpit (of an aircraft or boat)

• “cockpit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.