Usually means: Steers and commands a rowing boat.
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  1. coxes: Merriam-Webster
  2. coxes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Coxes, coxes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Coxe's, Coxes: Wordnik
  5. coxes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Coxes, coxes: Wiktionary
  7. coxes: Dictionary.com
  8. coxes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. coxes: Encyclopedia

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  1. coxes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See cox as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (COX)

noun:  A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To act as coxswain for.
noun:  An English surname from Middle English for either son of, or servant of someone named Cocke or Cook.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Florida, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  A commune in Haute-Garonne department, Occitanie, France; the name comes from Occitan.
noun:  A municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencia, Spain.
noun:  Acronym of cyclooxygenase. [(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze a cyclooxygenation reaction, but especially the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins (prostanoids); their inhibition is the mode of action of the NSAIDs aspirin and ibuprofen.]
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