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Sea cock   Listen
noun
Sea cock  n.  
1.
In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The black-bellied plover.
(b)
A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).





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"Sea cock" Quotes from Famous Books



... Water Fowl are, Swans, called Trompeters. Swans, called Hoopers. Geese, three sorts. Brant gray. Brant white. Sea-pies or pied Curlues. Will Willets. Great Gray Gulls. Old Wives. Sea Cock. Curlues, three sorts. Coots. Kings-fisher. Loons, two sorts. Bitterns, three sorts. Hern gray. Hern white. Water Pheasant. Little gray Gull. Little Fisher, or Dipper. Ducks, as in England. Ducks black, all Summer. Ducks pied, build on Trees. Ducks whistling, at Sapona. ...
— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson


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