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cot I. \ˈkät, usu -äd.+V\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Middle High German kūz pit as a place of execution, Old Norse kot small hut, Gothic qithus stomach, Latin guttur throat, Greek (Maced dialect) goda intestines, Sanskrit guda bowel, rectum; basic meaning: round, curved 1. : a small house : a cottage or hut 2. : cote 3 3. : a cover or sheath: as a. : the cloth covering of a drawing roller in a spinning frame b. : a protective cover for a finger II. transitive verb (cotted ; cotted ; cotting ; cots) : to provide shelter for : put in a cot III. noun or cott \“\ (-s) Etymology: Middle English cot, from Anglo-French, perhaps from Medieval Latin cottum quilt : a matted or felted lock of wool or hair (as in the fleece of a sheep or the fur of a cat) : refuse wool IV. intransitive verb (cotted ; cotted ; cotting ; cots) : to form cots : mat V. \ˈkät, ˈkȯt\ noun (-s) Etymology: Irish Gaelic coite Irish : a small boat VI. \ˈkät, usu -äd.+V\ noun (-s) Etymology: Hindi khāṭ bedstead, bier, from Sanskrit khaṭvā, of Dravidian origin; akin to Tamil-Malayalam kaṭṭil bedstead, bier 1. India : a light bedstead : charpoy 2. : a small bed that is often collapsible and that is used typically for camping or by a child 3. : a bed made of canvas stretched on a frame, suspended like a hammock, and formerly used on shipboard especially by officers and sick persons 4. : a wheeled stretcher for hospital, mortuary, or ambulance service VII. noun (-s) Etymology: by shortening : apricot VIII. abbreviation cotangent IX. noun Britain : crib 2b |