cot

noun

1. 1

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

   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. 2

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

3. 3

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

noun

1. 1

   archaicA cottage or small homestead.

   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

   [H]e would [...] return in the evening from the west of her cot to spend another hour or two in the garden.

2. 2

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

noun

1. 1

   A small, crudely-formed boat.

noun

1. 1

   A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.

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

   a cot for a sore finger

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA man who does household work normally associated with women.

   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. 1

   datedvulva; vagina.

Forms

plural

cots