cot

plural cots

1. CanadaPhilippinesUSA 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.

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153

   Synonyms: camp bed

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

   Synonyms: crib

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

plural cots

1. archaicA cottage or small homestead.

   the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

   1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC

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   One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.

   1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia

   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

   [H]e would [...] return in the evening from the west of her cot to spend another hour or two in the garden.

   1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 21

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

   Synonyms: cote

plural cots

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

plural cots · alternative dialectal cote

1. A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.

   a cot for a sore finger

   1 more example

   a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)

plural cots

1. obsoleteA 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.

   1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347

1. datedAfrican-American Vernacularvulva; vagina.

1. abbreviationinitialismartificial intelligenceInitialism of chain of thought.