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Webster 1913 Edition

Sea cock

Sea′ cockˊ

.
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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