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Sea-cock

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Sea-cock
    a gurnard: the sea-plover: a valve communicating with the sea through a vessel's hull: a sea-rover or viking
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. ; Dut. zee, Ger. see, Ice. sær, Dan. .

Usage in literature

Immediately they cocked up their tails, disappeared from sight, and fled into the blue sea. "The Red Fairy Book" by Various

Sea, wind, leaves, thunder, waters, cows lowing, the cattlemarket, cocks, hens don't crow, snakes hissss. "Ulysses" by James Joyce

Hard by, below the cliff, and close to the sea, was a tavern, at the sign of the Cock. "A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete" by Georg Ebers

Finding no one, he went into the engine-room and opened the sea-cock. "Kindred of the Dust" by Peter B. Kyne

I was some Iodine, made of sea-weed; J was a Jolly Cock, not used to read. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete" by Various

Next, a cock-grouse, somewhere below the amber sea, crowed aloud to proclaim the day, and a raven mocked at him hoarsely. "The Way of the Wild" by F. St. Mars

We climbed up to a tiny cock-loft, of which the side towards the sea was all glazed. "Romance" by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

Then open your exhaust an' unscrew a sea-cock. "The Stowaway Girl" by Louis Tracy

The sea-cock was then opened, and the chamber began to slowly fill with water. "The Log of the Flying Fish" by Harry Collingwood

If a sailor on land is a fish out of water, a soldier at sea is like a game cock in a duckpond. "Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2" by Ian Hamilton

Usage in poetry
The last badge of victory.
The swarm is knocked into a cocked straw hat.
Elba, Elba, bleb on the sea!
The white busts of marshals, admirals, generals
Worming themselves into niches.
There are cities by rivers, by lakes, and by seas,
Each as full of itself as a cheese-mite of cheese;
And a city will brag as a game-cock will crow
Don't your cockerels at home--just a little, you know?