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English
Man-of-war with yards a-cockbill
Etymology
From acock(“In a cocked or turned-up fashion”, adverb) + bill(“the point of or beyond the fluke”, noun).[1]
Simpson, J. A. & Weiner, E. S. C., editors (1933), The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volume III, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), published 1989, →ISBN, page 412
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