The Sailor's Word-Book / An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

by W. H. Smyth

COOMINGS, or Combings. The rim of the hatchways. (See [Coamings].)

COOM OF A WAVE. The comb or crest. The white summit when it breaks.

COON-TRAIE. A Manx and Erse term for the neap-tide.

COOP, or Fish-coop. A hollow vessel made with twigs, with which fish are taken in the Humber. (See [Hen-coop].)

COOPER. A rating for a first-class petty officer, who repairs casks, &c.

COOT. A water-fowl common on lakes and rivers (Fulica atra). The toes are long and not webbed, but bordered by a scalloped membrane. The name is sometimes used for the guillemot (Uria troile), and often applied to a stupid person.

COOTH. See [Cuth].

COP, or Copt. The top of a conical hill.

COPE. An old English word for cape.

COPECK. See [Kopek].