Definition of "cote"

cote¹

/kəʊt/

noun
plural cotes
1. A cottage or hut.
2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
  Quotations
  Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
  1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

cote²

/kəʊt/

verb
third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted
1. Obsolete form of quote.

cote³

/kəʊt/

verb
third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted
1. (obsolete) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
  Quotations
  We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]
  [...]strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.
  1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37