Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A narrow bed, especially one made of canvas on a collapsible frame.
- noun Chiefly British A crib.
- noun A small house.
- noun A protective covering or sheath.
- abbreviation cotangent
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An effeminate person.
- noun An abbreviation of
cotangent . - noun A little boat.
- noun A small house; a cottage; a hut; a mean habitation.
- noun A small bed or crib for a child to sleep in; also, a portable bed formed of canvas, webbing, or other material fastened to a light frame, often made cross-legged to permit folding up. Also called
cot-bed . - noun Nautical, a swinging bed or hammock of canvas, stiffened by a wooden frame, and having upright sides of canvas to protect the sleeper.
- noun A leather cover for a finger, used to protect the finger when it is injured or sore, or to shield it from injury, as in dissecting; a finger-stall.
- noun A sheath or sleeve, as the clothing for a drawing-roller in a spinning-frame.
- noun Refuse wool.
- noun A fleece of wool matted together; a lock of wool or hair clung together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
- noun A small house; a cottage or hut.
- noun A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
- noun A cover or sheath. See also
finger cot . - noun A small, rudely-formed boat.
- noun (Arch.) See under
Bell .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A symbol of the
trigonometric function cotangent . - noun US A simple
bed , especially one forportable ortemporary purposes; acamp bed . - noun nautical A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of
bunks . - noun A
crib (child's bed). - noun A finger cover used to prevent
static discharge. - noun archaic A cottage or small homestead.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small bed that folds up for storage or transport
- noun a sheath worn to protect a finger
- noun baby bed with high sides made of slats
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The term cot death is often used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa and New Zealand.
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But when Alice Fancourt walks into the nursery, her terrifying ordeal begins, for Alice insists the baby in the cot is a stranger she's never seen before.
The RIP read 2006
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But when Alice Fancourt walks into the nursery, her terrifying ordeal begins, for Alice insists the baby in the cot is a stranger she's never seen before.
The RIP read 2006
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But when Alice Fancourt walks into the nursery, her terrifying ordeal begins, for Alice insists the baby in the cot is a stranger she's never seen before.
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Hospitals expect a family member or friend to stay in the room with you, and a couch or cot is provided.
Healthy living in Mexico: insurance, health care and medical 2008
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Hospitals expect a family member or friend to stay in the room with you, and a couch or cot is provided.
Healthy living in Mexico: insurance, health care and medical 2008
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She walks into the nursery and insists that the baby in the cot is not Florence.
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She walks into the nursery and insists that the baby in the cot is not Florence.
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She walks into the nursery and insists that the baby in the cot is not Florence.
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But malbec, known also by the name cot or auxerrois in the south of France, is indeed very much French.
pterodactyl commented on the word cot
This word, as contrasted with caught, is somewhat famous among linguists. See here for the story.
April 11, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word cot
Also see here for a map of the cot/caught merger in the US.
April 11, 2008