Cockpit

A pit or arena where game-cocks fight one another. -In England, the privy-council chamber at Westminster; so called because built on the site of the old cockpit of White hall palace. ( Naut .) An apartment in a ship of war appropriated to the use of the surgeon, being the place where he dre es the wounded; it is near the hatchway under the lower gun-deck. Cock of the Plain, Cock of the Woods, n. (Zool.) See GROUSE.