[ˈkɒkpɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a compartment for the pilot, and sometimes also the crew, in an aircraft or spacecraft

- a place where cockfights are held


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (in cockpit): from cock + pit. cockpit dates from the early 20th century and derives from an early 18th-century nautical term denoting an area in the aft lower deck of a man-of-war where the wounded were taken, later coming to mean ‘the ‘pit’ or well from which a yacht is steered’; hence the place housing the controls of other vehicles