cockboat

noun

1. A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.

   “Haue care, I pray, to guide the cock-bote well, / Least worse on sea then vs on land befell.”

   “The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!”