Webster's English Dictionary

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cockpit

cock.pit \'ka:k-.pit\ n 1: a pit for cockfights  obs  2: the pit of a 
   theater  3a: an apartment of an old sailing warship used as quarters for 
   junior offi cers and for treatment of the wounded in an engagement 3b: an 
   open space aft of a decked area from which a small ship is steered  3c: a 
   space in the fuselage of an airplane for the pilot or the pilot and p 
   assengers or in large passenger planes the pilot and crew 3d: a space 
   resembling an airplane cockpit