cockpit

See also: Cockpit

English

Etymology

From cock +‎ pit.

Noun

cockpit (plural cockpits)

1. The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile). [from 20th c.]
2. The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
   • 1984 September 3, Steve Harris (lyrics and music), “Aces High”, in Powerslave, performed by Iron Maiden:

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

3. (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting. [from 16th c.]
   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, →OCLC, pages 194–195:

     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.

   • 2020 October 28, “Police officer raiding illegal cockfight gets killed by rooster”, in BBC News:

     Cockfighting has been banned during the virus outbreak. Before the pandemic, it was allowed only in licensed cockpits on Sundays and legal holidays, as well as during local fiestas lasting a maximum of three days […]

4. (figurative) A site of conflict; a battlefield. [from 16th c.]
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, prologue]:

     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?

   • 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 170:

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

5. (vulgar, slang) The vagina. [from 17th c.]
   • 1658, John Eliot, Poems, London: Henry Brome:

     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.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the Second]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume II, London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 191:

     […] ſo that her thighs duly diſclod'd, and elevated, laid open all the outward proſpect of the treaſury of love: the roſe-lipt ouverture preſenting the cock-pit ſo fair, that it was not in nature even for a natural to miſs it: […]

6. (Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes. [from 17th c.]
   • 1803, R. C. Dallas, Esq., The History of the Maroons: […] , volume 1, London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, →OCLC, page 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.

7. (nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay. [from 17th c.]
8. (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located. [from 18th c.]
9. (figurative) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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

Descendants

Descendants of cockpit in other languages

• Czech: kokpit
• Dutch: cockpit
• French: cockpit
• German: Cockpit
• Greek: κόκπιτ (kókpit)
• Japanese: コックピット (kokkupitto)
• Norwegian Bokmål: cockpit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: cockpit
• Swedish: cockpit
• Turkish: kokpit

Translations

space for pilot and crew in an aircraft

• Bulgarian: пилотска кабина (pilotska kabina)
• Catalan: cabina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 座艙／座舱 (zh) (zuòcāng), 駕駛艙／驾驶舱 (zh) (jiàshǐcāng)

• Czech: kokpit (cs) m
• Danish: cockpit (da) n, førerkabine c
• Dutch: cockpit (nl) c
• Finnish: ohjaamo (fi)
• French: cabine de pilotage (fr) f, cockpit (fr) m
• Galician: carlinga f
• German: Cockpit (de) n, Pilotenkanzel n
• Greek: κόκπιτ (el) n (kókpit), πιλοτήριο (el) n (pilotírio)
• Hebrew: תא-הטייס‎ m (ta-ha't'aias), קוֹקְפִּיט‎ (he) m (kokpit)
• Hungarian: pilótafülke (hu)
• Icelandic: stjórnklefi m
• Ido: kabino (io)
• Italian: abitacolo (it) m, cabina di pilotaggio f, cabina di comando f
• Japanese: 操縦席 (ja) (そうじゅうせき, sōjūseki), コックピット (kokkupitto)
• Korean: 조종석(操縱席) (ko) (jojongseok)
• Macedonian: пи́лотска каби́на f (pílotska kabína)
• Malay: kokpit
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нисэгчийн бүхээг (nisegčiin büxeeg), нисэгчийн кабин (nisegčiin kabin), жолоодох өрөө (žoloodox öröö) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠰᠦᠭᠴᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ
  ᠪᠦᠬᠡᠭᠡᠭ (nisüɣči-yin bükegeg), ᠨᠢᠰᠦᠭᠴᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ
  ᠺᠠᠪᠢᠨ (nisüɣči-yin kabin), ᠵᠢᠯᠣᠭᠣᠳᠬᠤ
  ᠥᠷᠥᠭᠡ (ǰiloɣodqu öröge)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cockpit m

  Nynorsk: cockpit m

• Polish: kokpit (pl), kabina pilotów
• Portuguese: cabine de pilotagem f
• Romagnol: abitàcol m
• Romanian: carlingă (ro) f, cabină de pilotaj f
• Russian: каби́на (ru) f (kabína) (пило́та)
• Spanish: cabina (es), carlinga (es) f
• Swahili: dungu
• Swedish: förarkabin (sv) c, cockpit (sv) c
• Turkish: kokpit (tr)

compartment for wounded — see sickbay

nautical: well, where the helm is

• Bulgarian: рулева рубка f (ruleva rubka)
• Danish: cockpit (da) n
• Finnish: istuinkaukalo, sitloora
• Hebrew: קוֹקְפִּיט‎ (he) m (kokpit)
• Italian: pozzetto m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cockpit m

  Nynorsk: cockpit m

• Swedish: sittbrunn (sv) n

enclosure for cockfights

• Bikol Central: bulangan
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: hanekampplads c
• Italian: arena (it) f, campo combattimento galli m, gallodromo m
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Maguindanao: bulangan
• Maranao: bolangan
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: reñidero m
• Tagalog: sabungan
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Pitcock, cocktip

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cockpit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔk.pit/

Noun

cockpit m (plural cockpits)

1. cockpit

Further reading

• “cockpit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cockpit.

Noun

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

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

References

• “cockpit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cockpit.

Noun

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

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

References

• “cockpit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.