cot

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Pronunciation

• (British, Australia, Boston) IPA: /kɒt/
  • (RP) IPA: [kʰɒʔ(t)]
  • (Australia) IPA: [kʰɔt], [kʰɔʔ]
  • (Boston) IPA: [kʰɒːt̚]
• (America) IPA: /kɑt/
  • (America) IPA: [kʰɑt̚]
  • (Northern Cities Vowel Shift) IPA: [kʰat̚]

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes; a camp bed.
2. A crib (child's bed).
3. (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

Translations

• French: lit de camp
• German: Feldbett
• Italian: branda, lettino da campo
• Portuguese: catre
• Russian: ко́йка
• Spanish: camilla, catre

Translations

• Russian: ко́йка

Translations

• French: lit de bébé, huche
• German: Kinderbett
• Italian: greppia, presepe, lettino, culla
• Portuguese: berço
• Russian: (детский
• Spanish: cuna, pesebre

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.

   • the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

   • 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

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

Related terms

• coscet
• cosset
• cote
• cotter

Translations

• Italian: casolare, capanna, casupola
• Portuguese: casebre
• Russian: уса́дьба

Translations

• Italian: stalla, stabbio, riparo, capanna

Translations

• Italian: ditale

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

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. cottage

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