From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Water, Motor vehicles, Other sportscockpitcock‧pit /ˈkɒkˌpɪt $ ˈkɑːk-/ noun [countable]1
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TTWTTCthe area in a plane, small boat, or racing car where the pilot or driversits2DSOa small enclosed area where cockfights took place in the pastExamples from the Corpuscockpit• The two pilots sat side-by-side in an enclosed cockpit, with a gangway between the seats and fulldual control provided.• Authorities have said the plane was overloaded and that Reid was apparently at the cockpit controls.• We spent an hour each day in the cockpit and three or four hours in the bleachers watching our classmates.• Not long before the race started, a fuelleak developed in the cockpit.• He shouted at the men in the cockpit to make fast the rope that led to his neck.• I was pinned in the cockpit in freezingtemperatures for three days, unable to move.• Later that afternoonJoe came back to the cockpit, looking worried.