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cot

noun
/kɒt/CA/kɔt//kɑt/US

Etymology

From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

  1. derived from cote
  2. inherited from cot
  3. inherited from *kuttô✻ — “woolen fabric, wool covering”
  4. inherited from *cot✻
  5. inherited from cot — “matted wool”

Definitions

  1. A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

    • There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.

  2. A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.

  3. A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the…

    A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A cottage or small homestead.

      • the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
      • One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
      • 1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem). Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban

    2. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.

    3. A small, crudely-formed boat.

    4. A cover or sheath

      A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.

      • a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
      • a cot for a sore finger

    5. A man who does household work normally associated with women.

      • You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.

    6. vulva

      vulva; vagina.

    7. Initialism of chain of thought.

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Derived

carrycot, chuck one's toys out of the cot, cot-bed, cot-caught merger, cot death, cotless, Cotman, fingercot, finger cot, life cot, meat-safe cot, pigscot, portacot, three hots and a cot, throw one's rattle out of the cot, throw one's toys out of the cot, bell cot, cothouse, cotland, cot-quean

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA