Cot
[kɒt] or [kɑt]
Definition
(noun.) a small bed that folds up for storage or transport.
Inputed by Gustav--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small house; a cottage or hut.
(n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
(n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.
(n.) A small, rudely-formed boat.
(n.) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
Inputed by Doris
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hut, COTTAGE.[2]. Low bedstead.
Checker: Wyatt
Definition
n. a small bed: a swinging bed of canvas suspended from the beams of a ship for the officers: a bed for a child a crib.
n. a small boat.
n. a small dwelling a cottage.—ns. Cot′-folk (Scot.) cottars; Cot′-house a house occupied by a cottar; Cot′-land land belonging to a cottage; Cot′-quean (Shak.) a man who busies himself with women's affairs.—adj. Cot′ted lined with cots.—n. Cot′-town a number of cot-houses.
Typed by Ada
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a cot, foretells some affliction, either through sickness or accident. Cots in rows signify you will not be alone in trouble, as friends will be afflicted also.
Edited by Dwight
Unserious Contents or Definition
A snooze for one.
Checked by Jean
Examples
- That was the cot of _my_ infancy; an old egg-box. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The priest sat on my cot that the orderly had set up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Never to return,' muttered D'Arnot, and threw himself face downward upon the cot. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- D'Arnot extinguished the lamp, and lay down upon the cot. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- As one is about to pass out of the library attention is arrested by an incongruity in the form of a cot, which stands in an alcove near the door. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When he arrived at the laboratory, Mr. Edison, who had been up all night experimenting, was asleep on the cot in the library. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Lucy and Lucy's cot, the sole thoughts in his head! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Carefully he lifted Tarzan to the cot, and then, after closing and bolting the door, he lighted one of the lamps and examined the wound. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Poor Emmy's days of happiness had been very few in that humble cot. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He rented a room in the top floor of an office building, bought a cot and an oil-stove, a foot lathe, and some tools. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had several cots placed in the adjoining building, and he and a few of his most strenuous assistants worked day and night, leaving the work only for hurried meals and a snatch of sleep. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Solomon