Cockpit

1. n. In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.
2. n. A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.
3. n. The Privy Council room at Westminster; — so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
4. n. That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.