Cockpit
London, public theatre in Drury Lane, built for cockfights in 1609 and converted in 1616 by Christopher Beeston, on plans drawn up possibly by Inigo Jones, into a roofed or ...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... ˈkäkˌpit n. a compartment for the pilot and sometimes also the crew in an aircraft or...
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A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
... The covered area of a small motor boat or the section on an aircraft where the controls are situated and the pilots and engineers...
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A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.)
...2000 marked the replacement of cockpit dials and switches by computer displays, a system known informally as the ‘glass cockpit’. The system will eventually be fitted to all orbiters. Further upgrades to cockpit controls are planned, with the creation of a ‘smart cockpit’ intended to reduce the pilot's...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins (3 ed.)
...cockpit [M16th] At first a cockpit was a place for holding cock fights, so from the beginning the word had connotations of bloodshed and injury. This accounts for it being applied in the late 17th century to the area in the aft lower deck of a man-of-war where wounded sailors were treated during a battle. It then came to be used for the well from which you steer a sailing yacht [M18th]. Finally, in the early 20th century, cockpit acquired its modern meaning, the area or compartment that houses the controls of an aircraft or racing...
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)
... . 1 The well of a yacht or small sailing vessel where the steering wheel or tiller is located. It normally gives access to the saloon, but in some yachts a separate central cockpit is incorporated where the steering wheel and navigational instruments are situated. 2 In the old sailing navies the space near the after hatchway and below the lower gun-deck allotted originally to the senior midshipmen of the ship and later to the surgeon and his mates for their messes. In action it became the operating theatre to which men who had been wounded were...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [MC] A place of entertainment common in later medieval and post‐medieval times comprising a small round arena in which cockfights were held, surrounded by a viewing area for spectators. Some examples are covered by a building, but as earthworks cockpits are usually circular depressions up to 40 m in diameter and 2–3 m deep. In Britain the sport was made illegal in ad 1849...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
...scenery. Two of Davenant's ‘plays with music’, or early operas, were seen at the Cockpit— The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru ( 1658 ) and The History of Sir Francis Drake ( 1659 ). When the theatres reopened on the return of Charles II in 1660 , a troupe of young actors, including Betterton , occupied the Cockpit, but it could not stand up to the competition of the Patent Theatres , and closed for good in about 1665 . It should not be confused with the Cockpit at Whitehall ( 1638–65 ), which was used only for private presentations of plays and...
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A Dictionary of Geography (6 ed.)
... karst ( kegelkarst ) A landscape of star-shaped hollows surrounded by steep, rounded hills, found in tropical karst . The cockpits, up to 100 m deep, usually containing a streamsink , are the hollows ( dolines ) formed by the solution of limestone, and now floored with alluvium. See Fleurant et al. (2006) J. Geol. Soc. special...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
..., The . Originally built for cockfighting in 1609 , the building in Drury Lane was converted for play performances in 1616 by the influential actor-manager Beeston . Although burnt down and rebuilt in 1617 , it remained in use until the closure of the theatres in 1642 (and perhaps beyond); reopened in 1651 by Beeston's son, it provided an important link between Elizabethan and Restoration theatre. Another Cockpit theatre at Whitehall was used for the private performances of Charles I's and Charles II's masques...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
... Theatre In 1616 Christopher Beeston , manager of Queen Anne's Men at the Red Bull , built a hall playhouse in Drury Lane in London , near Lincoln's Inn. Originally named the Cockpit, probably as an extension of an old hall made to stage cockfights, it was sometimes called the Phoenix once it was rebuilt after being burned by apprentices in 1617 . Its design, a half-round brick-built auditorium facing a rectangular stage flanked by boxes for noble spectators with a square-ended tiring house behind, might be shown in a set of plans by ...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
... Hill Pottery . English ceramics manufactory, founded in Derby and officially known as the Derby Pot Works. It made cream-coloured earthenwares from 1751 to c. 1780 ; its designers included Thomas Radford . One of the owners, John Heath , later became a founding partner in the Derby Porcelain Company, some of whose early figures were probably made at Cockpit Hill. F. Williamson : The Derby Pot Manufactory Known as Cockpit Hill Pottery (Derby,...
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...-in-Court Built in 1629 as a replacement for a succession of temporary theatres used at Whitehall Palace to stage plays and *masques for the royal entertainments of the Christmas season, the Cockpit was designed by Inigo *Jones and reflected the distinctive qualities of *Palladio 's Teatro *Olimpico at Vicenza ( 1583 ), which Jones had studied. An intimate theatre, it had a curved scaenae frons with five entry doors, and a complicated balcony area. Queen Henrietta Maria had introduced *perspective staging for a play at Somerset House in ...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...-in-Court Built in 1629 as a permanent replacement for a succession of temporary theatres used at Whitehall Palace to stage plays and masques for the royal entertainments of the Christmas season, the Cockpit was designed by Inigo Jones and reflected the distinctive qualities of Palladio 's Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza ( 1583 ), which Jones had studied. An intimate theatre, it had a curved scaenae frons with five entry doors, and a complicated balcony area. Jones's drawings survive at Worcester College Oxford. Queen Henrietta Maria had introduced...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
...cockpit n = sp cock-pit 1 > pit ...
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Green's Dictionary of Slang
... n. 2 ( UK Und. ) a prison's punishment cells. 1939 V. Davis Gentlemen of the Broad Arrows 163: You'll get a change of air, 716 […] down in the cockpit (punishment...
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Green's Dictionary of Slang
... n. 1 [i.e. they are ‘fighting’ established religion] a Dissenters' meeting-house. 1785, 1788, 1796 Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue . 1811 Lex. Balatronicum...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... pit or enclosure to be used for cock-fighting XVI; (naut.) after part of the orlop deck of a man of war XVIII. f. COCK 1 + PIT...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... a place for holding cockfights; in figurative usage, the place where a contest is fought out. The word is also recorded from the late 16th century used for a theatre, in Shakespeare 's Henry V ( 1599 ). The Cockpit was the name of a 17th-century London theatre, built on the site of a cockpit, and was later used for a block of buildings on or near the site of a cockpit built by Henry VII , used from the 17th century as government offices, and from this used informally for ‘the Treasury’ and ‘the Privy Council chambers’. In the early 18th century the...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • dammit , Hammett, Mamet • emmet , semmit • helmet , pelmet • remit • limit • kismet • climate • comet , grommet, vomit • Goldschmidt • plummet , summit • Hindemith • hermit , Kermit, permit • gannet , granite, Janet, planet • magnet • Hamnett • pomegranate • Barnet , garnet • Bennett , genet, jennet, rennet, senate, sennet, sennit, tenet • innit , linnet, minute, sinnet • cygnet , signet • cabinet • definite • Plantagenet • bonnet , sonnet • cornet , hornet • unit • punnet , whodunnit ( US whodunit) • bayonet •...
