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noun

Cot n.

A small house; a cottage or hut. "The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm."

A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. See also finger cot.

A small, rudely-formed boat.

Bell cot. (Arch.) See under Bell.

Cot n. (Written also cott) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cot" Quotes from Famous Books

... was also got early out of his wooden cot, and dressed in his very best clothes. The baby's best frock was made of Turkey-red cotton, very faded, and he had a small worn-out fifth-hand sun-bonnet tied under his chin, and his little legs were bare, but that did not matter—it was, indeed, rather an ...

— A Big Temptation • L. T. Meade

... May the ambassador of Cot-sen made his entry; this was father Fray Victorio Riccio, [42] a Florentine, a religious of the Order of Preachers. He was attired in the garb of a mandarin's rank, which the barbarian had conferred on him to equip him for this embassy. Little pomp was displayed ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various

... self-command. She seemed to examine, with an eager and inquisitive eye, first one object, and then another by turns. The novelty of the whole scene appeared for an instant to engross her attention. Every part of the furniture was unlike that of a shepherd's cot; and completely singular and unprecedented by any thing that her memory could suggest. But this self-deception, this abstraction from her feelings and her situation was of a continuance the shortest that can be conceived. All seemed changed with her in a moment. ...

— Imogen - A Pastoral Romance • William Godwin

... of Treveglwys, near Llanidloes, in the county of Montgomery, there is a little shepherd's cot, that is commonly called Twt y Cwmrws (the place of strife) on account of the extraordinary strife that has been there. The inhabitants of the cottage were a man and his wife, and they had born to them twins, whom the woman nursed with great care and tenderness. Some months afterwards ...

— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen

... on a cot, and in a room almost totally different from any that he had ever seen before. The colour of the walls, even, was dissimilar; likewise the ceiling. It was white, in a way, and yet unlike it; neither did ...

— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint

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