† ˈcobridge-head Naut. Obs.
Understood to have been bulk-heads across the fore and after parts of the vessel.
| 1622 R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 206, I hold nothing [i.e. no artillery] more convenient in ships of warre, then fowlers and great bases in the cage workes, and murderers in the cobridge heads. 1855 Kingsley Westw. Ho! xx. (D.), A shelter, which was further increased by strong bulk⁓heads (‘cobridge-heads’) across the main-deck below. |