cockpit /ˈkɒkpɪt / ▸ noun 1 a compartment for the pilot, and sometimes also the crew, in an aircraft or spacecraft. ▪ the driver's compartment in a racing car. ▪ a space for the helmsman in some small yachts. 2 a place where cockfights are held. ▪ a place where a battle or other conflict takes place: most conventional army training takes place on the cockpit of Salisbury Plain. – ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in SENSE 2): from cock1 + pit1. SENSE 1 dates from the early 20th cent. and derives from an early 18th-cent. 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.
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