Brewer's: Coxswain

Kog is Norwegian for a cockboat; Welsh, cwch; Italian, cocca, etc.; and swain, Anglo-Saxon for a servant, superintendent, or bailiff. (See Cockboat.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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