cote

plural cotes

1. A cottage or hut.
2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.

   Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.

   1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

present singular third person cotes · participle present coting · participle past coted · past coted

1. obsoleteObsolete form of quote.

present singular third person cotes · participle present coting · participle past coted · past coted

1. obsoleteTo go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.

   A dog cotes a hare.

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   We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]

   …strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.

   1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37

plural Cotes

1. A surname from French.