Definitions
Compartment where a pilot controls an aircraft.
Word origin
Either the same as above or from compound of cock (“boat”) + pit, where the first element is also found in cockboat and coxswain.
Used in a sentence
“A cockpit, which was still used for cock-fighting during the Napoleonic Wars, used to occupy the site of the vicarage.”
“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[…]”
“The Cockpit or Phoenix Theatre in Drury Lane stood in the parish of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, on what is now Pitt-place—properly Cockpit-place or Alley.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Pilot's compartment”7 letters
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