cockpit

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.

   “I obſerv'd a Place where there had been a Fire made, and a Circle dug in the Earth, like a Cockpit, where it is ſuppoſed the Savage Wretches had ſat down to their inhumane Feaſtings upon the Bodies of their Fellow-Creatures.”

2. isim A theater or other entertainment venue.

   “But pardon, and gentles all, / The flat unraised spirits that have dared / On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth / So great an object: can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France? or may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt?”

3. isim A site of conflict; a battlefield.

   “India became the cockpit in which it was shown that trade was war carried on under another name.”

4. isim The vagina.

   “If then the stone, as doctors tell the story, / Be a disease that prove hereditory, / I trust her daughter will have so much wit, / Early to get a cock for her cock-pit; / And rather then be barren; play the whore, / As her great mother hath done heretofore.”

5. isim A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.

   “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.”

6. isim The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.
7. isim A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
8. isim The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).
9. isim The compartment in an aircraft or spacecraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled.

   “Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines / Remove all the wheel blocks, there's no time to waste”

10. isim An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control.