cot
IPA: kˈɑt
noun
- (Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
- (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
- (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
- A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
- A small, crudely-formed boat.
- A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
- (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
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Examples of "cot" in Sentences
- A velvet bed is laid on the cot.
- It needs a Cot treatment pronto.
- Textbooks with a pillow and a cot.
- I'm reading this as cot cot merger.
- COT is supposed to raise awareness.
- I of thinking of updating the COT .
- And thanks for diving into the COT .
- Delisted for not qualifying for COT .
- Listed in COT as a handgun cartridge.
- So, it will hopefully be the new COT .
- She walks into the nursery and insists that the baby in the cot is not Florence.
- But malbec, known also by the name cot or auxerrois in the south of France, is indeed very much French.
- Hospitals expect a family member or friend to stay in the room with you, and a couch or cot is provided.
- The term cot death is often used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa and New Zealand.
- But when Alice Fancourt walks into the nursery, her terrifying ordeal begins, for Alice insists the baby in the cot is a stranger she's never seen before.
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