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Cockpit

noun

Compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft.

A pit for cockfights.

Seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car.

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"Cockpit" Quotes from Famous Books

... believe I was actually goin' to pull it off until he'd got the motor started and we went skimmin' along the ground. But as soon as we shook off the State of Connecticut and began climbin' up over a strip of woods, I settles back in the little cockpit, buttons the wind-shield over my mouth, and ...

— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford

... myself to his account. Still, memory will be memory; and spite of all I can do, sir, I sometimes remember what I might have been, as well as what I am. If his Majesty does feed me, it is with the spoon of a master's mate; and if he does lodge me, it is in the cockpit." ...

— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper

... something phenomenal had happened to Test Pilot Fayburn. A space egg had smashed through the cockpit Plexi-glass and ...

— Ten From Infinity • Paul W. Fairman

... old chap, it's a private view of Kedar's tents to me," said Amory, his eyes shining behind his pince-nez. "I'll probably win wide disrespect by my inability to tell a mainsail from a cockpit, but I'm a grateful ...

— Romance Island • Zona Gale

... cockpit and stretched himself at full length upon the cushions of the seats. A ghastly, greenish pallor was upon his face and no proof was required that he ...

— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay

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