cotn.¹

Brit.

/kɒt/, U.S.

/kɑt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1800s cott.

Etymology: Old English cot neuter (plural cotu ), in Lindisfarne Gosp. also ? cott (dative cotte , cottum ) = Middle Dutch cot (inflected cōte ), Dutch kot , Middle Low German and modern Low German kot ; also Old Norse kot (infl. koti ) neuter < Old Germanic type *kuto^m . Beside this is found in same sense Old English cote (see cote n.¹) = Middle Dutch cōte, Middle Low German and modern German kōte (kothe) weak feminine, also sometimes in Middle Low German and German dialect weak masculine. The form with tt found in Northumbrian is also in Rhenish dialects of German from 14th cent. kotte, but the gemination is not original, and merely marks the short vowel. From the same root came Old English cýte , céte , prop. cíete cot, cell, chamber (whence apparently Middle English chete n.) < Old Germanic *kautjôn-, in which kaut- is in ablaut relation to kut-.

1. A small house, a little cottage; now chiefly poetical, and connoting smallness and humbleness, rather than the meanness and rudeness expressed by hut.In Old English used more widely for ‘cottage, house, bed-chamber, den’. Sparingly represented in Middle English, in which cote and, later, cottage were more frequent terms. Cote in this sense having become obsolete, or merely dialect, about 1625, cot has been revived as a poetical and literary term.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > small house > small ( and humble) house

cotc893

cotlif1001

cotea1034

cratchc1325

shiel1338

cottagec1405

cot-housec1550

cell1577

shiel-house1804

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. ix. §17 Æt ham æt heora cotum.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xi. 7 Cnæhtas mino mec mið sint in cotte [c975 Rushw. Gosp. cote; L. cubili].

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xii. 3 Þæt in eare sprecend ȝie woeren in cottum [c975 Rushw. Gosp. in cotum; L. in cubiculis].

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 13 Witodlice ȝe worhtun þæt to þeofa cote [c1160 Hatt. Gosp. to þeof-coten].

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 164 We ne mei nout wið uten swink alutel kot [?c1225 Cleo. cote] areren?

a1325 Song Poor Husbandm. in Pol. Songs (Camden) 152 Seththe y counte ant cot hade to kepe.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 576/2 Cotagium, a cotage, or a cot.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xii. 170 Poor Cotts are ev'n as safe as Princes Hall.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 7 O leave the noisie Town, O come and see Our Country Cotts, and live content with me!

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 87 Huts or Cots of the Mountainiers.

1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. vi Did to a lonely cott his steps decoy.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 39 To every cot the Lord's indulgent mind, Has a small space for Garden-ground assign'd.

1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. I. 178 A few humble fishermen's cots.

1884 A. C. J. Gustafson Found. Death (ed. 3) ii. 33 In cot as well as castle.

2. A small erection for shelter or protection, as for sheep, a bell, etc.; = cote n.¹ 2. Also in combination as bell-cot, sheep-cot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > animal house > small animal house

cotec1420

cotc1450

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 730 Hec caula, schepcot.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 730 Hec barcaria, i. ovile, a schepcott.

1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford Gloss. Cot, a barn for folding sheep.

1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 66 Lucker church [has] a cot for one bell placed on the western gable.

3. A case or protecting covering; a finger-stall; the covering of a drawing-roller in a spinning frame, etc. Now dialect or technical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > finger- or thumb-stall

fingerling1440

fingerstall?c1475

thumb-case1598

cot1617

thumb-stall1654

finger-stool1787

finger cot1841

hud1893

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > finger-stall

fingerling1440

fingerstall?c1475

cot1617

finger-stool1787

finger cot1841

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. i. ii. 21 In Moscovy..men..in time of snow, weare a cot or couer for their noses.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cot..a leathern cover for a sore finger.

a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 10 Cot, a case for a wounded finger.

Compounds

In Old English cot occurred in numerous compounds; later combinations often vary with cote-, and more recently cot- appears to be used as a contraction for cottar and cottage. See also cot-house n., cotland n., cotlander n., cotlif n., cotman n., cotset n., cotsetla n., cottown n.

cot-folk n. (also cote-folk) Scottish cottars, cottar-folk.

ΚΠ

1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs ix, in Poems 13 What poor Cot-folk pit their painch in, I own it's past my comprehension.

cot-garth n. dialect (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Cotgarth, a small ground enclosure attached to a cottage.

cots-work n. domestic work (cf. cot n.⁵).

ΚΠ

1795 T. Pownall Antiquarian Romance 157 As to the home or cots-work, that was done by the women and children of the family.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cotn.²

Brit.

/kɒt/, U.S.

/kɑt/

Forms: Also 1500s cotte, 1600s cote.

Etymology: Middle English and Anglo-Norman French cot; Godefroy has, apparently for the same thing, in Old French (1410) the derivative coterel, plural coteriaulx, ‘en oster [i.e. des laines] suing, gars, crotins, esconssures et coteriaulx’, and says that cotteron is now, in the arrondissement of Vervins, hard and matted wool used for mattresses. Possibly identical with medieval Latin cottum, cotum, ‘bed-quilt, stuffed mattress,’ this being a purpose to which ‘cot’ was applied. Compare Statut. Antiq. Cartus in Du Cange s.v. ‘Cotum vel coopertorium de grossis ovium pellibus’. Cottum, again, is identified with Old Northern French coute, coete, Old French coilte, coite, modern French couette, quilt.

dialect.

1. Wool matted or felted together in the fleece.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > other

cot1471

wool1608

Lemster ore1610

belta1641

vigone1656

downright1749

stitchel1775

super1797

Saxony1842

lustre1894

snow-white1896

sixties-

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > fleece > matted

cot1471

tag-lock1615

ket1786

1357 Act 31 Edw. III c. 8 Et que nul Marchant nautre qi achate laines face autre refuys des laines que ne soleit estre fait devant ces heures; cest assavoir de Cot, Gare vileine tuson.

1389 Act 13 Rich. II c. 9 Que nulle deinzein ou forein ne face autre refus de leynes sinoun cod gard et vilein.]

1471 Acta Audit. 18 (Jam.) Ij sek of gude woll, but cot or ter.

1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 17 §1 No maner person..[shall] winde..within any fleesse..tailes, decepteful lockes, cotte, calles, combre, lambes wolle, or any other thinge.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. T3/1 Cote, is a kind of refuse wolle clung or clotted together.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. iii. vi. 209 Throw a small handful of cot or refuse wool into the boiler.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cot, a sheep's fleece that has become matted together during growth. [So in N. Linc., Leicestersh., and W. Somerset Glossaries.]

1885 F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Fibre Gloss. 352 Cots, matted locks of wool forming a hard felt in the fleece.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 52 Cots, knotted wool from sheep.

2. A confused entangled mass; a tangle: esp. applied in some districts to seaweeds or confervæ, that accumulate in pools, drains, etc.

ΚΠ

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 295 The internal drains [in Linc. fens] are..kept remarkably clear from weeds and cot.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Cot..any confused heap, tangle, or matting of hair, string, cotton, etc.

1884 S. W. Linc. Gloss. (at cited word) ‘The roots were all of a cot.’ ‘The corn had grown that length, and was all of a cot.’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cotn.³

Brit.

/kɒt/, U.S.

/kɑt/, Irish English

/kɑt/

Forms: Also 1500s cote, 1500s–1600s cott.

Etymology: Irish and Gaelic cot a small boat (O'Reilly, Macleod and Dewar): compare also Irish coit coracle, small boat (O'Reilly).

Irish English.

A small roughly-made boat, used on the rivers and lakes of Ireland; a dugout.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > dug-out

troughc893

cot1537

monoxylon1555

toni1582

piragua1599

pitpan1726

log-canoe1752

monoxyle1775

corial1796

dugout1819

montaria1853

lakatoi1885

mokoro1897

doonga1905

curiara1910

1537 Stat. Ireland (1765) I. 161 Boates, scowts, wherries, clarans, cottes, and other vessels.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 162/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They tooke a bote or a cote trough, which could not hold aboue eight or ten persons at a time.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R3 In her cott..[Her] little boat [that] can safely passe this perilous bourne.

1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. x. 59 A little Boat or Cot, if you Angle in great Waters, to carry you up and down to the most convenientest places for your pastime.

a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) viii. 64 They call in Ireland Cots things like Boats, but very unshapely, being nothing but square peeces of timber made hollow.

1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 106 Numerous cots employed in catching salmon.

1862 C. J. Lever Barrington vii One of those light canoe-shaped skiffs—cots as they are called on these rivers.

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cotn.⁴

Brit.

/kɒt/, U.S.

/kɑt/

Forms: Also 1600s–1800s cott.

Etymology: Anglo-Indian, < Hindi khāṭ bedstead, couch, hammock, bier ( < Prakrit khaṭṭā, Sanskrit khaṭwā). In Anglo-Indian use from early part of 17th cent.; thence it passed into naval use, whence to a child's swing-cot.

1. Anglo-Indian. A light bedstead; a charpoy.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead > light Indian

cot1634

guard-cot1818

charpoy1844

string bed1895

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 149 The better sort sleepe vpon Cots, or Beds two foot high, matted or done with girth-web.

1685 W. Hedges Diary July (1887) I. 203 I hired 12 stout fellows..to carry me as far as Lar in my Cott Palankeen fashion.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. iv. 41 In the East Indies..Men take their Cotts or little Field-Beds, and put them in the Yards, and go to sleep in the Air.

1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 32/2 Dr. Williams had informed him that Gungabissen might be brought into court on a cott.

1824 J. B. Seeley Wond. Ellora iii I found three of the party insisted upon accompanying me the first stage, and had despatched their camp-cots.

1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (at cited word) In Northern India..Cot..is not in such prevalent European use as it formerly was, except as applied to barrack furniture, and among soldiers and their families.

2. A portable bed, or one adapted for transport.

ΚΠ

1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. (1854) 306 Every man in that country has a small cot called a catre made to double with a hinge, which may be taken down and wrapped up, with pillows and bed clothes in an oxhide to carry on a journey.

3. Nautical. A sort of swinging bed for officers, sick persons, etc. on board ship, made of canvas, stretched at the bottom by a rectangular frame, and suspended like a hammock from the beams.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship > cot or pipe cot

cot1769

pipe berth1900

pipecot1946

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Cott, a particular sort of bed-frame, suspended from the beams of a ship, for the officers to sleep in.

1798 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 209 Sailmakers making cots for the Royal Family.

1821 A. Fisher Jrnl. Voy. Arctic Regions 1819–20 Introd. p. x We were also provided with standing bed-places, which were deemed to be warmer than cots, or hammocks.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 162 Our captain..was put in his cot, and never rose from it again.

a. A small bed for a child; properly, one suspended so as to swing between uprights; a swing-cot; also frequently applied to a ‘crib’ or four-legged bed-stead with sides to prevent the child from falling out.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle

cradlec1000

cader?c1225

crete1340

cunablesa1549

rocker1566

wicker1646

crib1649

cather?1748

cunabula1774

cot1813

co-sleeper1997

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Cott,..the name is now often given to swing-cradles for children.

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Cot, or Cott, a small bed; a cradle, as it is yet called in the north of England.

1856 E. B. Browning Tears in Poems (ed. 4) The babe weeps in its cot.

1890 Furnisher's Catalogue Swing cot, perforated sides, with half tester. Patent swing-fold cot, can be readily folded into a thickness of 3 inches.

b. A bed in a children's hospital. Also (U.S.), a bed or wheeled stretcher of a type used in hospitals. Cf. cot-case n. at Compounds 2 below.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > bed for sick person > in hospital

hospital bed1823

pay-bed1855

cot1874

bed1881

orthopaedic bed1943

amenity bed1948

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > hospital bed

hospital bed1823

cot1874

1874 ‘H. Churton’ Toinette xxxv. 359 Some are sitting up in their cots gazing out upon the fair scene below.

c1884 Ld. Tennyson In Children's Hospital iv Here is the cot of our orphan.

1891 Low's Handbk. Charities London 50 An Infirmary for sick children, containing twelve cots.

1892 Daily News 31 Mar. 5/4 The endowment of a cot in the Victoria Hospital for Children at Chelsea, which the Princess of Wales has named after her late son.

a1922 C. C. Andrews Recoll. (1928) 202 It was while lying ill on my cot at Galveston that I decided to join the Republican party.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

cot arrangement n.

ΚΠ

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 614 I was informed that I must get up, that the servants might remove the cot arrangement, and clear the cabin for the breakfast-table.

cot-bed n.

ΚΠ

1836 S. G. Perkins in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1886) 2nd Ser. II. 385 At the entrance of the cabin hung a cot-bed, in which the mate usually slept.

1838 J. H. Ingraham Burton II. xi. 175 A narrow cott bed, with a military cloak thrown over it, constituted the sole furniture of the warrior's abode.

1856 A. Cary Married 416 The cot-bed whereon the miserable invalid lay.

1873 W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance iv I've no fancy for a cot-bed in the hotel parlour.

1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 177 She goes up to her room, where she finds a clean cot-bed.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Oct. 30/5 He is making the journey on a cot bed.

cot-bedstead n.

ΚΠ

1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 289 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI A folding cot bedstead.

cot-frame n.

ΚΠ

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 459 They should..sleep in hammocks, or on cott-frames.

C2.

cot-case n. a person sufficiently ill to be confined to bed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > confined to bed

bedlawerman1419

bedridden1429

bedlarc1440

bedwoman1568

bedrela1572

clinica1626

decumbent1641

discumbent1766

cot-case1897

1897 Daily News 23 Mar. 7/3 Altogether 35 patients were received, 22 being cot cases.

1924 P. Creswick Beaten Path xxvii. 150 To come here on an ambulance and be carried in, a regular right-down cot-case.

1965 ‘M. Neville’ Ladies in Dark xiv. 139 Winnie looked a proper cot-case.

cot death n. the unexplained death of a baby in its sleep.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > unexplained death of baby

cot death1951

1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Oct. 1006/1 The disparity between cot deaths and the others is probably a true one. A likely explanation of it is that the cot deaths are nearly all due to natural causes—and causes that show a high sex ratio.

1970 Guardian 11 May 4/5 ‘Cot death’ relates to children not known to be ill..who die unexpectedly.

2001 P. Caldwell Sleep Really Well (2003) viii. 180 Cot death occurs more frequently when infants are allowed to sleep in a prone or face-down position and when infants are more heavily wrapped.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cotn.⁵

Etymology: In sense 2 contracted from or referring to cotquean n. 3; sense 1 may be more directly related to cot n.¹ or its family.

Obsolete or dialect.

†1. (See quot. 1695) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun]

churlc1275

Hobc1325

Hodgec1386

charla1400

carlc1405

peasanta1450

hoggler1465

agrest1480

hoggener1488

rustical?1532

boor1548

rusticc1550

kern1556

clown1563

Jocka1568

John Uponlanda1568

russet coat1568

rustican1570

hind?1577

Corydon1581

gaffer1589

gran1591

russeting1597

dunghill1608

hog rubber1611

carlota1616

high shoe1647

Bonhomme1660

high-shoon-man1664

cot1695

ruralist1739

Johnnya1774

Harry1796

bodach1830

bucolic1862

cafone1872

bogman1891

country bookie1904

desi1907

middle peasant1929

woodchuck1931

swede-basher1943

moegoe1953

shit-kicker1961

1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss., Cotarius..the inhabitant of any country cot..Hence a country clown is now called a mere cot, as a citizen ignorant of country affairs, a mere cit.

2. A man that does domestic or household work usually done by women; a ‘betty’; hence cot-betty n. (U.S.). Obsolete exc. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > man who does domestic or household work

wife-carl?1507

cotquean1597

cot1699

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cot for Cotquean, a Man that meddles with Womens matters.

1711 Brit. Apollo 21–23 Feb. He's a cot, Still dangling about in the Kitchen.

1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Cotbetty, a man who meddles in the woman's part of household affairs.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cot, a man who interferes in the kitchen, a molly~coddle.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cot, a man or boy who cooks or does other womanly work. [So in Glossaries of Cheshire, Cleveland, etc.]

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

cotv.¹

Brit.

/kɒt/, U.S.

/kɑt/

Etymology: < cot n.¹

1. intransitive. ‘To cohabit, to dwell with one in the same house’ (Jamieson).

2. transitive. To put up (sheep) in a ‘cot’ or sheepcote; to keep under shelter during inclement weather.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > fold

foldc1440

stuff1567

sheepfold1610

enfold?1611

cot1804

wattle1908

1804 [see cotting n. at Derivatives].

1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 ii. 456 They lamb in February..and are sometimes ‘cotted’.

Derivatives

ˈcotting n.

ΚΠ

1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford Gloss. Cotting, folding sheep in a barn.

1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 676 This breed [of sheep]..requires cotting in the winter season.

1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 ii. 436 The system of cotting has the effect of causing the staple of the wool to be much finer.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cotv.²

Etymology: < cot n.²

dialect.

To tangle, mat, or felt together. See also cotted adj.¹)

ΚΠ

1876 3rd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1875–6 213 A fleece..so destitute of oil that the ordinary exposure of the county would cause it to ‘cot’ on the sheep's back.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Cot, to knot, tangle, mat together.

1884 S. W. Linc. Gloss. (at cited word) ‘Her tail cots so with the dirt’..‘The sheaves are quiët green and cotted’..‘The wheat was all cotted together in the bags’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

cotv.³

Etymology: < cot n.⁵

dialect.

See quots.

ΚΠ

1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) To Cott, is said of Men who are apt to intermeddle in such [domestic] Concerns.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 37 Cot, to do one's own household work.

1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Cot, to wait on a sick person; to saunter about home.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

n.¹c893

n.²1471

n.³1537

n.⁴1634

n.⁵1695

v.¹1804

v.²1876

v.³1736

单词	cot
释义	cotn.¹ Brit. /kɒt/, U.S. /kɑt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1800s cott. Etymology: Old English cot neuter (plural cotu ), in Lindisfarne Gosp. also ? cott (dative cotte , cottum ) = Middle Dutch cot (inflected cōte ), Dutch kot , Middle Low German and modern Low German kot ; also Old Norse kot (infl. koti ) neuter < Old Germanic type kuto^m . Beside this is found in same sense Old English cote* (see cote n.¹) = Middle Dutch cōte, Middle Low German and modern German kōte (kothe) weak feminine, also sometimes in Middle Low German and German dialect weak masculine. The form with tt found in Northumbrian is also in Rhenish dialects of German from 14th cent. kotte, but the gemination is not original, and merely marks the short vowel. From the same root came Old English cýte , céte , prop. cíete cot, cell, chamber (whence apparently Middle English chete n.) < Old Germanic kautjôn-, in which kaut-* is in ablaut relation to kut-. 1. A small house, a little cottage; now chiefly poetical, and connoting smallness and humbleness, rather than the meanness and rudeness expressed by hut.In Old English used more widely for ‘cottage, house, bed-chamber, den’. Sparingly represented in Middle English, in which cote and, later, cottage were more frequent terms. Cote in this sense having become obsolete, or merely dialect, about 1625, cot has been revived as a poetical and literary term. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > small house > small ( and humble) house cotc893 cotlif1001 cotea1034 cratchc1325 shiel1338 cottagec1405 cot-housec1550 cell1577 shiel-house1804 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. ix. §17 Æt ham æt heora cotum. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xi. 7 Cnæhtas mino mec mið sint in cotte [c975 Rushw. Gosp. cote; L. cubili]. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xii. 3 Þæt in eare sprecend ȝie woeren in cottum [c975 Rushw. Gosp. in cotum; L. in cubiculis]. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 13 Witodlice ȝe worhtun þæt to þeofa cote [c1160 Hatt. Gosp. to þeof-coten]. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 164 We ne mei nout wið uten swink alutel kot [?c1225 Cleo. cote] areren? a1325 Song Poor Husbandm. in Pol. Songs (Camden) 152 Seththe y counte ant cot hade to kepe. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 576/2 Cotagium, a cotage, or a cot. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xii. 170 Poor Cotts are ev'n as safe as Princes Hall. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 7 O leave the noisie Town, O come and see Our Country Cotts, and live content with me! 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 87 Huts or Cots of the Mountainiers. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. vi Did to a lonely cott his steps decoy. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 39 To every cot the Lord's indulgent mind, Has a small space for Garden-ground assign'd. 1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. I. 178 A few humble fishermen's cots. 1884 A. C. J. Gustafson Found. Death (ed. 3) ii. 33 In cot as well as castle. 2. A small erection for shelter or protection, as for sheep, a bell, etc.; = cote n.¹ 2. Also in combination as bell-cot, sheep-cot. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > animal house > small animal house cotec1420 cotc1450 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 730 Hec caula, schepcot. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 730 Hec barcaria, i. ovile, a schepcott. 1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford Gloss. Cot, a barn for folding sheep. 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 66 Lucker church [has] a cot for one bell placed on the western gable. 3. A case or protecting covering; a finger-stall; the covering of a drawing-roller in a spinning frame, etc. Now dialect or technical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > finger- or thumb-stall fingerling1440 fingerstall?c1475 thumb-case1598 cot1617 thumb-stall1654 finger-stool1787 finger cot1841 hud1893 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > finger-stall fingerling1440 fingerstall?c1475 cot1617 finger-stool1787 finger cot1841 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. i. ii. 21 In Moscovy..men..in time of snow, weare a cot or couer for their noses. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cot..a leathern cover for a sore finger. a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 10 Cot, a case for a wounded finger. Compounds In Old English cot occurred in numerous compounds; later combinations often vary with cote-, and more recently cot- appears to be used as a contraction for cottar and cottage. See also cot-house n., cotland n., cotlander n., cotlif n., cotman n., cotset n., cotsetla n., cottown n. cot-folk n. (also cote-folk) Scottish cottars, cottar-folk. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs ix, in Poems 13 What poor Cot-folk pit their painch in, I own it's past my comprehension. cot-garth n. dialect (see quot.). ΚΠ 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Cotgarth, a small ground enclosure attached to a cottage. cots-work n. domestic work (cf. cot n.⁵). ΚΠ 1795 T. Pownall Antiquarian Romance 157 As to the home or cots-work, that was done by the women and children of the family. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cotn.² Brit. /kɒt/, U.S. /kɑt/ Forms: Also 1500s cotte, 1600s cote. Etymology: Middle English and Anglo-Norman French cot; Godefroy has, apparently for the same thing, in Old French (1410) the derivative coterel, plural coteriaulx, ‘en oster [i.e. des laines] suing, gars, crotins, esconssures et coteriaulx’, and says that cotteron is now, in the arrondissement of Vervins, hard and matted wool used for mattresses. Possibly identical with medieval Latin cottum, cotum, ‘bed-quilt, stuffed mattress,’ this being a purpose to which ‘cot’ was applied. Compare Statut. Antiq. Cartus in Du Cange s.v. ‘Cotum vel coopertorium de grossis ovium pellibus’. Cottum, again, is identified with Old Northern French coute, coete, Old French coilte, coite, modern French couette, quilt. dialect. 1. Wool matted or felted together in the fleece. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > other cot1471 wool1608 Lemster ore1610 belta1641 vigone1656 downright1749 stitchel1775 super1797 Saxony1842 lustre1894 snow-white1896 sixties- the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > fleece > matted cot1471 tag-lock1615 ket1786 1357 Act 31 Edw. III c. 8 Et que nul Marchant nautre qi achate laines face autre refuys des laines que ne soleit estre fait devant ces heures; cest assavoir de Cot, Gare vileine tuson. 1389 Act 13 Rich. II c. 9 Que nulle deinzein ou forein ne face autre refus de leynes sinoun cod gard et vilein.] 1471 Acta Audit. 18 (Jam.) Ij sek of gude woll, but cot or ter. 1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 17 §1 No maner person..[shall] winde..within any fleesse..tailes, decepteful lockes, cotte, calles, combre, lambes wolle, or any other thinge. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. T3/1 Cote, is a kind of refuse wolle clung or clotted together. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. ii. iii. vi. 209 Throw a small handful of cot or refuse wool into the boiler. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cot, a sheep's fleece that has become matted together during growth. [So in N. Linc., Leicestersh., and W. Somerset Glossaries.] 1885 F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Fibre Gloss. 352 Cots, matted locks of wool forming a hard felt in the fleece. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 52 Cots, knotted wool from sheep. 2. A confused entangled mass; a tangle: esp. applied in some districts to seaweeds or confervæ, that accumulate in pools, drains, etc. ΚΠ 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 295 The internal drains [in Linc. fens] are..kept remarkably clear from weeds and cot. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Cot..any confused heap, tangle, or matting of hair, string, cotton, etc. 1884 S. W. Linc. Gloss. (at cited word) ‘The roots were all of a cot.’ ‘The corn had grown that length, and was all of a cot.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cotn.³ Brit. /kɒt/, U.S. /kɑt/, Irish English /kɑt/ Forms: Also 1500s cote, 1500s–1600s cott. Etymology: Irish and Gaelic cot a small boat (O'Reilly, Macleod and Dewar): compare also Irish coit coracle, small boat (O'Reilly). Irish English. A small roughly-made boat, used on the rivers and lakes of Ireland; a dugout. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > dug-out troughc893 cot1537 monoxylon1555 toni1582 piragua1599 pitpan1726 log-canoe1752 monoxyle1775 corial1796 dugout1819 montaria1853 lakatoi1885 mokoro1897 doonga1905 curiara1910 1537 Stat. Ireland (1765) I. 161 Boates, scowts, wherries, clarans, cottes, and other vessels. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 162/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They tooke a bote or a cote trough, which could not hold aboue eight or ten persons at a time. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R3 In her cott..[Her] little boat [that] can safely passe this perilous bourne. 1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. x. 59 A little Boat or Cot, if you Angle in great Waters, to carry you up and down to the most convenientest places for your pastime. a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) viii. 64 They call in Ireland Cots things like Boats, but very unshapely, being nothing but square peeces of timber made hollow. 1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 106 Numerous cots employed in catching salmon. 1862 C. J. Lever Barrington vii One of those light canoe-shaped skiffs—cots as they are called on these rivers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cotn.⁴ Brit. /kɒt/, U.S. /kɑt/ Forms: Also 1600s–1800s cott. Etymology: Anglo-Indian, < Hindi khāṭ bedstead, couch, hammock, bier ( < Prakrit khaṭṭā, Sanskrit khaṭwā). In Anglo-Indian use from early part of 17th cent.; thence it passed into naval use, whence to a child's swing-cot. 1. Anglo-Indian. A light bedstead; a charpoy. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead > light Indian cot1634 guard-cot1818 charpoy1844 string bed1895 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 149 The better sort sleepe vpon Cots, or Beds two foot high, matted or done with girth-web. 1685 W. Hedges Diary July (1887) I. 203 I hired 12 stout fellows..to carry me as far as Lar in my Cott Palankeen fashion. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. iv. 41 In the East Indies..Men take their Cotts or little Field-Beds, and put them in the Yards, and go to sleep in the Air. 1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 32/2 Dr. Williams had informed him that Gungabissen might be brought into court on a cott. 1824 J. B. Seeley Wond. Ellora iii I found three of the party insisted upon accompanying me the first stage, and had despatched their camp-cots. 1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (at cited word) In Northern India..Cot..is not in such prevalent European use as it formerly was, except as applied to barrack furniture, and among soldiers and their families. 2. A portable bed, or one adapted for transport. ΚΠ 1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. (1854) 306 Every man in that country has a small cot called a catre made to double with a hinge, which may be taken down and wrapped up, with pillows and bed clothes in an oxhide to carry on a journey. 3. Nautical. A sort of swinging bed for officers, sick persons, etc. on board ship, made of canvas, stretched at the bottom by a rectangular frame, and suspended like a hammock from the beams. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship > cot or pipe cot cot1769 pipe berth1900 pipecot1946 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Cott, a particular sort of bed-frame, suspended from the beams of a ship, for the officers to sleep in. 1798 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 209 Sailmakers making cots for the Royal Family. 1821 A. Fisher Jrnl. Voy. Arctic Regions 1819–20 Introd. p. x We were also provided with standing bed-places, which were deemed to be warmer than cots, or hammocks. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. x. 162 Our captain..was put in his cot, and never rose from it again. 4. a. A small bed for a child; properly, one suspended so as to swing between uprights; a swing-cot; also frequently applied to a ‘crib’ or four-legged bed-stead with sides to prevent the child from falling out. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle cradlec1000 cader?c1225 crete1340 cunablesa1549 rocker1566 wicker1646 crib1649 cather?1748 cunabula1774 cot1813 co-sleeper1997 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Cott,..the name is now often given to swing-cradles for children. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Cot, or Cott, a small bed; a cradle, as it is yet called in the north of England. 1856 E. B. Browning Tears in Poems (ed. 4) The babe weeps in its cot. 1890 Furnisher's Catalogue Swing cot, perforated sides, with half tester. Patent swing-fold cot, can be readily folded into a thickness of 3 inches. b. A bed in a children's hospital. Also (U.S.), a bed or wheeled stretcher of a type used in hospitals. Cf. cot-case n. at Compounds 2 below. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > bed for sick person > in hospital hospital bed1823 pay-bed1855 cot1874 bed1881 orthopaedic bed1943 amenity bed1948 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > hospital bed hospital bed1823 cot1874 1874 ‘H. Churton’ Toinette xxxv. 359 Some are sitting up in their cots gazing out upon the fair scene below. c1884 Ld. Tennyson In Children's Hospital iv Here is the cot of our orphan. 1891 Low's Handbk. Charities London 50 An Infirmary for sick children, containing twelve cots. 1892 Daily News 31 Mar. 5/4 The endowment of a cot in the Victoria Hospital for Children at Chelsea, which the Princess of Wales has named after her late son. a1922 C. C. Andrews Recoll. (1928) 202 It was while lying ill on my cot at Galveston that I decided to join the Republican party. Compounds C1. General attributive. cot arrangement n. ΚΠ 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 614 I was informed that I must get up, that the servants might remove the cot arrangement, and clear the cabin for the breakfast-table. cot-bed n. ΚΠ 1836 S. G. Perkins in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1886) 2nd Ser. II. 385 At the entrance of the cabin hung a cot-bed, in which the mate usually slept. 1838 J. H. Ingraham Burton II. xi. 175 A narrow cott bed, with a military cloak thrown over it, constituted the sole furniture of the warrior's abode. 1856 A. Cary Married 416 The cot-bed whereon the miserable invalid lay. 1873 W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance iv I've no fancy for a cot-bed in the hotel parlour. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 177 She goes up to her room, where she finds a clean cot-bed. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Oct. 30/5 He is making the journey on a cot bed. cot-bedstead n. ΚΠ 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 289 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI A folding cot bedstead. cot-frame n. ΚΠ 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 459 They should..sleep in hammocks, or on cott-frames. C2. cot-case n. a person sufficiently ill to be confined to bed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > confined to bed bedlawerman1419 bedridden1429 bedlarc1440 bedwoman1568 bedrela1572 clinica1626 decumbent1641 discumbent1766 cot-case1897 1897 Daily News 23 Mar. 7/3 Altogether 35 patients were received, 22 being cot cases. 1924 P. Creswick Beaten Path xxvii. 150 To come here on an ambulance and be carried in, a regular right-down cot-case. 1965 ‘M. Neville’ Ladies in Dark xiv. 139 Winnie looked a proper cot-case. cot death n. the unexplained death of a baby in its sleep. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > unexplained death of baby cot death1951 1951 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Oct. 1006/1 The disparity between cot deaths and the others is probably a true one. A likely explanation of it is that the cot deaths are nearly all due to natural causes—and causes that show a high sex ratio. 1970 Guardian 11 May 4/5 ‘Cot death’ relates to children not known to be ill..who die unexpectedly. 2001 P. Caldwell Sleep Really Well (2003) viii. 180 Cot death occurs more frequently when infants are allowed to sleep in a prone or face-down position and when infants are more heavily wrapped. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cotn.⁵ Etymology: In sense 2 contracted from or referring to cotquean n. 3; sense 1 may be more directly related to cot n.¹ or its family. Obsolete or dialect. †1. (See quot. 1695) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] churlc1275 Hobc1325 Hodgec1386 charla1400 carlc1405 peasanta1450 hoggler1465 agrest1480 hoggener1488 rustical?1532 boor1548 rusticc1550 kern1556 clown1563 Jocka1568 John Uponlanda1568 russet coat1568 rustican1570 hind?1577 Corydon1581 gaffer1589 gran1591 russeting1597 dunghill1608 hog rubber1611 carlota1616 high shoe1647 Bonhomme1660 high-shoon-man1664 cot1695 ruralist1739 Johnnya1774 Harry1796 bodach1830 bucolic1862 cafone1872 bogman1891 country bookie1904 desi1907 middle peasant1929 woodchuck1931 swede-basher1943 moegoe1953 shit-kicker1961 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss., Cotarius..the inhabitant of any country cot..Hence a country clown is now called a mere cot, as a citizen ignorant of country affairs, a mere cit. 2. A man that does domestic or household work usually done by women; a ‘betty’; hence cot-betty n. (U.S.). Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > man who does domestic or household work wife-carl?1507 cotquean1597 cot1699 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cot for Cotquean, a Man that meddles with Womens matters. 1711 Brit. Apollo 21–23 Feb. He's a cot, Still dangling about in the Kitchen. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Cotbetty, a man who meddles in the woman's part of household affairs. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cot, a man who interferes in the kitchen, a molly~coddle. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cot, a man or boy who cooks or does other womanly work. [So in Glossaries of Cheshire, Cleveland, etc.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018). cotv.¹ Brit. /kɒt/, U.S. /kɑt/ Etymology: < cot n.¹ 1. intransitive. ‘To cohabit, to dwell with one in the same house’ (Jamieson). 2. transitive. To put up (sheep) in a ‘cot’ or sheepcote; to keep under shelter during inclement weather. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > fold foldc1440 stuff1567 sheepfold1610 enfold?1611 cot1804 wattle1908 1804 [see cotting n. at Derivatives]. 1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 ii. 456 They lamb in February..and are sometimes ‘cotted’. Derivatives ˈcotting n. ΚΠ 1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford Gloss. Cotting, folding sheep in a barn. 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 676 This breed [of sheep]..requires cotting in the winter season. 1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 ii. 436 The system of cotting has the effect of causing the staple of the wool to be much finer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cotv.² Etymology: < cot n.² dialect. To tangle, mat, or felt together. See also cotted adj.¹) ΚΠ 1876 3rd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1875–6 213 A fleece..so destitute of oil that the ordinary exposure of the county would cause it to ‘cot’ on the sheep's back. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Cot, to knot, tangle, mat together. 1884 S. W. Linc. Gloss. (at cited word) ‘Her tail cots so with the dirt’..‘The sheaves are quiët green and cotted’..‘The wheat was all cotted together in the bags’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018). cotv.³ Etymology: < cot n.⁵ dialect. See quots. ΚΠ 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) To Cott, is said of Men who are apt to intermeddle in such [domestic] Concerns. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 37 Cot, to do one's own household work. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Cot, to wait on a sick person; to saunter about home. 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