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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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"Cot" Quotes from Famous Books

... flat out on a cot in a room on the second floor, and dragged it near the open window so he could get the air from the garden, and left him, I taking the precaution to lock the door to prevent his staggering downstairs ...

— Fiddles - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith

... on a low seat under the one window which was cut into the west side of the snugly-built log cabin. The heavy wooden shutter swung back over the bench. On the other side of the room was a low cot, and a single splint-bottomed chair stood against the open door. The house contained no ...

— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee

... flaps of her tent and pointed inside, where Esteban Varona lay upon her cot. His eyes were staring; his lips were moving. "Mrs. Ruiz and I will have our hands full with that poor chap. For all we know, he may have ...

— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach

... two days before he was allowed to talk to his own satisfaction. Then, one afternoon in her rest hour, Alice Mellen let him have his way and, seated by his cot, she answered tersely to a ...

— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller

... barred door at one of the Lani. He lay on a bare cot, a magnificently muscled figure with a ragged black beard hiding his face. There were dozens of scars on his body and one angry purple area on his thick right forearm where flesh had been torn away not too long ...

— The Lani People • J. F. Bone

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