coten.1
/kəʊt/, U.S. /koʊt/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
a1034 Laws of Cnut in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) I. 418 Gif hwilc man forstolen þingc ham to his cotan bringe.
c1160 Hatton Gosp. Matt. xxi. 13 To þeof-coten.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1141 I ne haue hws, y ne haue cote.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. viii. 16 Bothe prynces paleyses and pore mennes cotes.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xi. 2 In desert places thei maden litil cotes [a1425 L.V. litle housis].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 96 Coote, lytylle howse.
a1500 Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Bk. (Harl. 541) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 18 [As a ka]rle þat comys oute of a cote.
?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. C.ii Buyldynge nor house they haue non at all But wodes cotis and cauys small.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ix. 286 A Cote in our language is a litle slight-built countrey habitation.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 411 Call me Rosalind, and come euerie day to my Coat, and woe me. View more context for this quotation
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iv. 93 Shee them dismist to their contented Coates.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Cote, a sorry, slight Country-House or Hovel.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cote, a village, an isolated farm-house; as Beaumont-cote, Roose-cote. [In Sc. common in names of solitary shepherd's houses or farms, as East Cote, West Cote, etc.; also in the comb. cote-house a cottar's house.]
2.
a. A slight building for sheltering small animals, as sheep, pigs, fowls, or for the storage of anything; a shed, stall; spec. a sheep-cote.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > animal house > small animal house
cotec1420
cotc1450
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1081 Her cotes make biforne..and parte hem so betwene That every stye a moder wol sustene.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Av Go se and vysyte, our wethers in the cote.
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms xxiii. 2 He doth me folde in coates most safe.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xxxii. 28 Stalles for all maner of beasts, and coates for flocks. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 186 Where Shepherds pen thir Flocks at eeve In hurdl'd Cotes amid the field secure. View more context for this quotation
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 143 Lean ones [sc. Hogs] have been glad to creep into their Cotes.
1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 297 The produce of the Spanish cotes.
1865 Dixon Holy Land II. 46 The dove-seller kept his cotes for the accommodation of persons too poor to sacrifice a kid or lamb.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cote..a small building set apart for any special purpose; as Peat-cote, a house or place to put peat or turf in; Salt-cote, a place where salt was wont to be made on the sea-shore.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Cote, a shed for small cattle, or fowls. [So in Dialect Glossaries of Sheffield, Cheshire, Shropshire, etc.]
b. Now chiefly in combination, as in dove-cote, hen-cote, sheep-cote, bell-cote (in which cot also occurs); and in more local use, pig-cote, swine-cote, peat-cote, salt-cote, etc., which see.
c. figurative.
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1868 Daily Tel. 9 Dec. Every little human creature folded into the kindly cote of it [the Refuges Society] is..a thief or a pauper the less.
3. Combinations: see cot n.1 Compounds.
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coten.2
/kəʊt/, U.S. /koʊt/ Coursing.
The action described under cote v.1
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > [noun] > actions in coursing
cote1575
counter1575
go-by1615
wrench1615
trip1856
1575 G. Gascoigne Short Obseruation Coursing with Greyhoundes in Noble Arte Venerie 246 He that giueth most Cotes, or most turnes, winneth the wager. A Cote is when a Greyhounde goeth endways by his fellow & giueth the Hare a turne..but if he coast and so come by his fellowe, that is no Cote.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiii. 73 She from the Dogs doth spin, That striue to put her off, but when hee cannot reach her, This giuing him a Coat, about againe doth fetch her.
1848 Johnson Sportsman's Cycl. 194 A cote is when two dogs start even together, the hare going in a straight forward direction, and one dog draws endways by the other, and gives the hare a turn.
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cotev.1
/kəʊt/, U.S. /koʊt/ ? Obsolete.
1. transitive (Coursing.) Of one of two dogs running together: To pass by (its fellow) so as to give the hare (or other animal coursed) a turn.‘One dog cotes the other: Sir W. Scott erroneously makes the hound cote the hare or other animal.’ ( N.E.D.)
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (transitive)] > turn quarry
cote1555
serve1575
wrench1622
rick1829
1555 H. Braham Inst. Gentleman sig. Hiv Hunters..will affirme..that the fallowe dogge cotid the white, when as euen dede the falow came behynd.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) ii. v. 31 The buck broke gallantly: my great swift being disaduantaged in his slip was at the first behind, marry presently coted and out-stript them.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiii. 73 Which Dog first turnes the Hare, which first the other coats.
1636 W. Denny in Ann. Dubrensia sig. Cv The Swallow-footed Grey-hound..with celeritie Turnes his affrighted game, then coates againe His forward Rivall.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. v. 117 No greyhound loves to cote a hare, as I to turn and course a fool.
1825 W. Scott Talisman viii, in Tales Crusaders III. 185 [A dog of] swiftness to cote an antelope.
2. transferred and figurative. To pass by, go beyond; to outstrip, surpass.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)]
overstyeOE
overshinec1175
overgoc1225
passc1225
surmountc1369
forpassc1374
overmatcha1375
overpassa1382
to pass overa1393
overcomec1400
outpass?a1425
exceedc1425
precedec1425
superexcelc1429
transcendc1430
precel?a1439
outcut1447
overgrowc1475
to come over ——a1479
excel1493
overleapa1500
vanquish1533
outweigh1534
prevent1540
better1548
preferc1550
outgo1553
surpassa1555
exsuperate1559
cote1566
overtop1567
outrun1575
outstrip1579
outsail1580
overruna1586
pre-excel1587
outbid1589
outbrave1589
out-cote1589
top1590
outmatch1593
outvie1594
superate1595
surbravec1600
oversile1608
over-height1611
overstride1614
outdoa1616
outlustrea1616
outpeera1616
outstrikea1616
outrival1622
antecede1624
out-top1624
antecell1625
out-pitch1627
over-merit1629
outblazea1634
surmatch1636
overdoa1640
overact1643
outact1644
worst1646
overspana1657
outsoar1674
outdazzle1691
to cut down1713
ding1724
to cut out1738
cap1821
by-pass1848
overtower1850
pretergress1851
outray1876
outreach1879
cut1884
outperform1937
outrate1955
one-up1963
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Avij For he that thincks to coate all men And all to ouergoe.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. B Espie her loues, and who she liketh best: Coat him, and court her to controll the clowne.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 81 They have in some sorts outgrowne them in it, and quoted them in all, one onely excepted.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H2 Quick obseruation scud To coate the plot, or els the path is lost.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 319 Wee coted them on the way. View more context for this quotation
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 324 My lov'd son, get but to be first at turning in the course, He lives not that can cote thee then.
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cotev.2
/kəʊt/, U.S. /koʊt/ transitive. To put (animals, etc.) in a cote.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > place in house, stall, etc.
stall1390
to take up1482
to put up1607
cote1630
shed1850
lair1890
1630 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Not hauing a swine cote to cote up his swine in.
1634 J. Levett Ordering of Bees 29 When you have any swarme that is set up, Coate it as soone as you can.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 134/2 All Sheep..when Lodged..are either Coated or Housed.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Tiv If he give leave to them to Cote or Lodge any.
Derivatives
ˈcoted adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > enclosed in pen, stall, etc.
enclosed1552
stalled1560
impent1633
shedded1850
ox-fenced1852
penning1854
coted1866
impounded1888
1866 J. Ingelow Poems 225 Or cooing of the early coted dove.
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