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   cockpit

   /ˈkɒkpɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a compartment for the pilot, and sometimes also the crew, in an aircraft or spacecraft.
   • ▪ the driver's compartment in a racing car.
   • ▪ a space for the helmsman in some small yachts.
   • 2. a place where cockfights are held.
   • ▪ a place where a battle or other conflict takes place: "most conventional army training takes place on the cockpit of Salisbury Plain"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in cockpit (sense 2)): from cock1 + pit1. cockpit (sense 1) dates from the early 20th century and derives from an early 18th-century nautical term denoting an area in the aft lower deck of a man-of-war where the wounded were taken, later coming to mean ‘the ‘pit’ or well from which a yacht is steered’; hence the place housing the controls of other vehicles.

   Scrabble Points: 17

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   • O

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   • C

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   • K

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   • P

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   • I

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   • T

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