Obs. Naut. Also cubridge-, couperidge-, copperidge-. Also COBRIDGE-HEAD. A partition or bulkhead across the forecastle and the half-deck of a ship.
1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea (1847), 218. What with our cubridge heads, one answering the other,… it was impossible to take us.
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., ii. 11. [Those bulkheads] which doth make close the fore-castle, and the halfe Decke, the Mariners call the Cubbridge heads, wherein are placed murtherers [guns], and abaft Falcons … to cleare the Decks fore and aft.
a. 1642. Sir W. Monson, Naval Tracts, III. (1703), 346/1. The Couperidge-Head. Ibid., 357/1. With a Half Deck, Fore-Castle, and Copperidge-heads.
