Etymology Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).
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Canada, Philippines, US 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.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153:
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Commonwealth, Ireland, UK A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
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Nautical, TransportHistorical A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
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.
the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:
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:
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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
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A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
Etymology From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”).
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A small, crudely-formed boat.
cot
noun
Etymology From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.
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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
cot
noun
Etymology Contraction of cot-quean.
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Obsolete 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.1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347: