Meaning of Cot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of chain of thought.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
   Canada, Philippines, US, error-lua-timeout
3. A cottage or small homestead.
   archaic
4. A small, crudely-formed boat.
5. A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
6. A man who does household work normally associated with women.
   obsolete
7. vulva; vagina.
   dated
8. A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, error-lua-timeout
9. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
10. A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
    error-lua-timeout, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

“a cot for a sore finger”

“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.”

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