'Sea cock' definitions:
Definition of 'Sea cock'
From: GCIDE
- Sea cock \Sea" cock`\
- 1. In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) (a) The black-bellied plover. (b) A gurnard, as the European red gurnard ({Trigla pini}). [1913 Webster]