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plural cots
(Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes. examples
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides. examples
(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. quotations
the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W. Griffin, […]
One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia
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
1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).
A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons. examples
A small, crudely-formed boat. examples
A cover or sheath; a fingerstall. examples
(obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women. quotations
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.
1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347