cot — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • Philippines
   • US usage

   Synonyms

   camp bed

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

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

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Ireland
   • UK usage

   Synonyms

   crib

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

   Usage

   • Historical

Noun

1. A cottage or small homestead.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

   the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

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

   More examples (2)

   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.

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

   Synonyms

   cote

Noun

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Noun

1. A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.

   Examples

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

   a cot for a sore finger

Noun

1. A man who does household work normally associated with women.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

Noun

1. vulva; vagina.

   Usage

   • Dated

Noun

1. a sheath worn to protect a finger

   Synonyms

   fingerstall

   Broader terms

   sheath

2. baby bed with high sides made of slats

   Synonyms

   crib

   Broader terms

   baby bedbaby's bed

3. a small bed that folds up for storage or transport

   Synonyms

   camp bed

   Broader terms

   bed