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cot

1

[ kot ]

noun

  1. a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
  2. British. a child's crib.
  3. a light bedstead.
  4. Nautical. a hammocklike bed stiffened by a suspended frame.


cot

2

[ kot ]

noun

  1. a small house; cottage; hut.
  2. a small place of shelter.
  3. a sheath or protective covering, as for an injured finger or toe.

cot

3

abbreviation for

, Trigonometry.

cot

1

/ kɒt /

noun

  1. literary.
    a small cottage
  2. Also calledcote
    1. a small shelter, esp one for pigeons, sheep, etc
    2. ( in combination )

      dovecot

  3. another name for fingerstall
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


cot

2

/ kɒt /

noun

  1. a child's boxlike bed, usually incorporating vertical bars
  2. a collapsible or portable bed
  3. a light bedstead
  4. nautical a hammock-like bed with a stiff frame
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cot

3

/ kɒt /

verb

  1. dialect.
    to entangle or become entangled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cot

4

/ kɒt /

abbreviation for

  1. cotangent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cot

  1. Abbreviation of cotangent


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cot1

1625–35; < Hindi khāṭ < Prakrit khaṭṭā < Sanskrit khaṭvā; akin to Tamil kattil bedstead

Origin of cot2

before 900; Middle English, Old English cot (neuter; cote 1 ); cognate with Old Norse kot hut; akin to cubby, cove 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cot1

Old English cot; related to Old Norse kot little hut, Middle Low German cot

Origin of cot2

C17: from Hindi khāt bedstead, from Sanskrit khátvā, of Dravidian origin; related to Tamil kattil bedstead
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Example Sentences

I stripped down to my gym shorts and stretched out on my cot.

“I was at first on a cot, and then in a succession of accommodations,” he says.

Apparently, Ryan tried bragging about how he sleeps in a cot in his office—to a nun.

A small cot in the corner even provided a rest area for KGB agents when the listening sessions stretched through the night.

Even as he sits and weeps alone on his cot, multiple personalities surround him.

They stopped presently before a cell, and when the light had been turned on, she saw Baptiste sitting on a cot.

The dawn, peeping in between the flowered curtains, throws a white, innocent light over her cot.

Because of its recumbent position, symbolic of General Lee resting on a battlefield cot, this statue is considered most unique.

The little blue placard hung over the cot, as in the foundling hospitals, states the child's nationality: "Moldo, Wallachian."

In my cell, as in the others, there was a narrow iron cot, which could be folded and propped up to the cell wall.

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