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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Nautical A small cabin or the cook's galley on a ship.
  2. n. A small room, cupboard, or closet.
  3. n. Scots A donkey.
  4. n. Scots A fool; a dolt.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An ass; a donkey.
  2. n. A stupid or silly fellow; a clown.
  3. n. A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad-ties, etc.; a lever-jack.
  4. n. Nautical, a room or cabin a baft and under the poop-deck, in which the officers and cabin-passengers take their meals; also, a sort of cabin or cook-room in lighters, barges, etc.; in small boats, a locker.
  5. n. Hence Any small cupboard or storehouse for odds and ends.
  6. n. A name of the coalfish.
  7. n. The gallinule, Gallinula chloropus. Montagu.
  8. n. A counterweight, a loaded truck used to balance the car on an incline.
  9. n. Nautical: A platform in the stern of a fishing-boat, on which a drift-net is carried when not in use.

Wiktionary

  1. n. nautical a cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck
  2. n. a small cupboard or closet
  3. n. Scotland A donkey.
  4. n. UK, mining A pony that works in a mine.
  5. n. The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Scot. An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
  2. n. A blockhead; a lout.
  3. n. (Mech.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
  4. n. (Naut.) A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
  5. n. (Zoöl) The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the galley or pantry of a small ship

Etymologies

  1. Scots; compare Gaelic cudaig, cudainn, or English cuttlefish, or cod. (Wiktionary)
  2. Origin unknown.Perhaps from Cuddy, nickname for Cuthbert, personal name. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear "a sort of cabin or cook-room, in the fore-part, or near the stern, of a lighter, or barge of burden."
    Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 112

    See also fore cutty. Oct 12, 2008

  • bilby Scots - horse. Dec 6, 2007

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