cox, n. (in full Cox's orange pippin) a variety of eating-apple with a red-tinged green skin.
R. Cox, amateur Eng. fruit grower d. 1825
cox, n. & v.
--n. a coxswain, esp. of a racing-boat.
--v.
1 intr. act as a cox (coxed for Cambridge).
2 tr. act as cox for (coxed the winning boat).
abbr.