noun
definition
A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.
verb
definition
To act as coxswain for.
example
I coxed the lightweight 4+ yesterday.
Examples of cox in a Sentence
Cox secured the nomination.
Cox, but was defeated in the ensuing election.
The report, however, would be of greater value if the names of the medium and of the working members of the committee were given - we only know that of Serjeant Cox - and if they had written independent accounts of what they witnessed.
Cox, the Democratic nominee, also from Ohio; he carried, generally by immense majorities, all the northern states and all but one of the states on the border between North and South, and he cut down materially the Democratic majorities in the South.
The electoral vote was 404 for Harding against 127 for Cox.
The popular vote was 16,138,009 for Harding against 9,142,000 for Cox.
The sweeping character of his victory was due less to his own personal strength or to the weakness of Cox than to the national reaction against the Democratic party and the popular feeling against President Wilson.
This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Cos to Cox.
The electoral vote was 404 for Harding and 127 for Cox.
The popular vote was 16,138,900 for Harding and 9,142,000 for Cox.
She was the daughter of Captain Cox, of Yarmouth, master mariner in the herring fishery, who died young; whereupon his widow maintained herself as landlady of the King's Head Inn at Croydon.
Having taken orders in 1560, he became in the same year chaplain to Richard Cox, bishop of Ely, who collated him to the rectory of Teversham, Cambridgeshire.
Cox, nominated on the 44th" ballot.
The two caverns most frequently visited are called respectively Cox's and Gough's; in each, but especially in the first, there is a remarkable collection of fantastic and beautiful stalactitical forms. There are other caverns of greater extent but less beauty, but their extent is not completely explored.
In 1728 he had married Hannah Cox, who died in the following year.
In1851-1853he was superintendent of schools at Warren, Ohio; in 1853 was admitted to the Ohio bar, being at that time an anti-slavery Whig; and in 1859 was elected to the state senate, in which with Garfield and James Monroe (1821-1898) he formed the "Radical Triumvirate," Cox himself presenting a petition for a personal liberty law and urging woman's rights, especially larger property rights to married women.
Babcock and urged by President Grant; introduced the merit system in his department, and resigned in October 1870 because of pressure put on him by politicians piqued at his prohibition of campaign levies on his clerks, and because of the interference of Grant in favour of William McGarrahan's attempt by legal proceedings to obtain from Cox a patent to certain California mining lands.
They are extensively developed along the Cox river and along the slopes of Mount Canoblas.
The Lower Carboniferous rocks also occur in the Blue Mountains, along the Cox river and Capertee river; and a northern continuation occurs along the western slope of the New England tableland, from the Macintyre river to the Queensland border.
Emboldened by success, the enemy in immense force surrounded and attacked Fort Cox, where the governor was stationed with an inconsiderable force.
A secret combination was formed with the Kaffirs to take up arms to sweep the Europeans away and establish a Hottentot republic. Within a fortnight of the attack on Colonel Mackinnon the Kat river Hottentots were also in arms. Their revolt was followed by that of the Hottentots at other missionary stations; and part of the Hottentots of the Cape Mounted Rifles followed their example, including the very men who had escorted the governor from Fort Cox.
There are very few works dealing adequately but simply with the principles of arithmetic. Homersham Cox, Principles of Arithmetic (1885), is brief and lucid, but is out of print.
In 1908, when the Republican party had declared in favour of county option and the Democratic party favoured township and ward option, a special session of the legislature, called by the Republican governor, passed the Cox Bill for county options.
Cox was a fine orator, and a speech made in Exeter Hall in 1833, in which he put the responsibility for slavery in America on the British government, made a great impression.
Even the linesman got in on the act with a highly dubious offside against Cox.
Cox used to quote proverbs like "The Devil makes work for idle hands to do."
A joint meeting is planned for June 2004 to celebrate the 80 th birthday of Sir David Cox.
Being pressured to the best possible cox quot total TV bop city.
At the last election Geoffrey Cox, Conservative, was elected MP by a narrow majority over our prospective parliamentary candidate David Walter.
Mr. and Mrs. David Cox Mr. David Cox Married couple where only the husband is well known e.g. a male work colleague.
Later put together readying cox to program recently changed from his car.
However, apparently, said cox is going to be reported to the headmaster for bringing the name of the school into disrepute.
Novice members may only row with an experienced cox who has been approved as such by a Committee member.
Those of you who can fit in to the cox's seat will also be expected to cox's seat will also be expected to cox a few times.
The front boat stopped and the cox of the second boat did not notice until they were very close.
Getting increasingly frantic, she asked the parlor maid, Sarah Cox.
Hazard ratios were calculated using Cox proportional hazard ratios were calculated using Cox proportional hazards models that adjusted for potential confounders.
Despite the minor hiccup of John, our cox, sleeping through his alarm clock we all made it to Lincoln on time.
It took a lot of persuasion from Darren Cox to put black hydro into it!
The Cox are playing catch-up to Stuntface, & Six Year Hangover (pic above) are playing ketchup to The Cox.
How come local lawman Officer Cox (Railsback) seems to have such a close association with Dr. Caldicott?
Simon Cox will take 27 minutes to explain the blindingly obvious.
Fed up, he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wifes (an uncredited Courtney Cox) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup.
It is also delicious with Cox's orange pippins if you like the North Country association of apples and cheese.
Cox tried to pick his way through but an attempted clearance saw the ball ricochet off his legs.
Supermarine looked statuesque in defense, and this was apparent in the opening minutes as Harris, Thompson and Cox had strong early runs.
Cox came off the bench to throw two touchdowns in the final nine minutes.
Cox's portrayal was so successful he donned a tuxedo and won awards.
In fact, Tom Cox can still catch a whiff of Brut off him from here.. .
Thence, like so many of the Marian exiles, he proceeded to Frankfurt, where he endeavoured to compose the disputes between the "Coxians" (see Cox, Richard), who regarded the 1552 Prayer Book as the perfection of reform, and the Knoxians, who wanted further simplification.