Cot

Definition: Cot

Cot

Noun

1. A sheath worn to protect a finger.

2. Baby bed with high sides.

3. A small bed that folds up for storage or transport.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Medicine

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Cot

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Support

Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.

Woman

Sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman.

Crosswords: Cot

Portuguese (Centre for Earth Observation), Romanian (bend, crack, crook, cubit, curvature, curve, elbow, Ell, knee, knuckle, loop, meander, sweep, turn, turning, twist, winding), Scottish (a cottage), Welsh (coat, overcoat).

I mean alright, it was in the wrong cot but it all got sorted out in the end. If you ask me those mothers just overreacted! (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

I bet this cot told some great stories. (Three's Company; writing credit: Taylor Caldwell; William Hanley)

Sleep in a cot pickin dirty south bed (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris)

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Books

• Dinosaur (Shake and Play Cot Books) (reference)

• Expert group to investigate cot death theories : final report May 1998 (reference)

• Guia Medica De Remedios Caseros: Mas De 1,200 Tecnicas Y Nuevas Sugerencias Que Cualquiera Puede Utilizar Para Resolver UN Sinnumero De Problemas cot (reference)

• Microwave Physics and Technique: Proceeding of the 6th International School on: 2-7 Cot 1989: Varna, Bulgaria (reference)

• The angling cot (reference)

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High Tech

• PAPER,LGL,25% COT 20#,WE (reference)

• PAPER,LTR,25% COT 20#,WE (reference)

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Benjamin Harrison with "U.S. Peace Commission Dove Cot" hat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cot house in the oil town of Hobbs, New Mexico. Hobbs is now experiencing a boom and the cot houses are necessary for the swarms of workers who come in. This is typical of all oil boom towns. Credit: Library of Congress.

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At the further extremity there was a little room containing a cot bed.

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Health

In shelters, use a cot with the sleeping surface at least 12 inches above the ground. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cot": Bell cot ♦ carry cot ♦ cot betty ♦ cot case ♦ cot death ♦ dove cot ♦ finger cot ♦ folding cot. Additional references.

Beginning with "cot": cot-death, cot-sided, cot-size, cot-type.

Ending with "cot": carry-cot.

Albanian

shtrat portativ (camp-cot), krevat fëmijësh (crib), katua (cow-house, crib), kasolle (bothy, cabin, hut, sconce, shack, shanty, shelter), ahur (byre, cowhouse, cowshed, depository, stable, stall, sty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوخ (cabin, camp, chalet, cottage, crib, hut, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), ‏غطاء (bed clothes, casement, casing, clothing, coat, coating, cover, cover up, covering, coverlet, envelope, facing, housing, jacket, lid, overlay, robe, roofing, rug, shroud, tarpaulin, tilt, top, vesture, wrapping), ‏سريرخفيف, ‏سرير معسكرات, ‏سرير نقال, ‏سرير طفل (cradle, crib). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кошара (cattle pen, cot case, fold, lair, loose box, pen, shieling), койка, колиба (bothy, cabin, crib, hovel, hut, kennel, shack, shanty, wickiup), легло-люлка, болнично легло, походно легло (camp bed, folding bed, folding cot, rollaway, stretcher), детско креватче (crib). (various references)

Czech

polní lùžko (camp bed), dìtská postýlka (crib). (various references)

Danish

kirurgisk fingerbeskytter (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall), fingertut (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall). (various references)

Dutch

kinderbed (child's bed). (various references)

Esperanto

infanlito (child's bed). (various references)

Farsi 

تختخواب سفری (Bedroll), رختخواب بچگانه , برانکاریاتخت مخصوص حمل مریض . (various references)

Finnish

sormisuojus (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall), sormensuojain (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall). (various references)

French

couverture (coat, coating, cover, coverage, covering, coverlet), cage, petit lit, lit d'enfant, lit de camp, doigtier (finger cot). (various references)

German

Hütte (barn, booth, cabin, cottage, hovel, hut, iron and steel works, Lodge, poop, shack, shanty, shed, stand, tabernacle). (various references)

Greek 

κρεβατάκι μωρού, κρεβατάκι (crib), καλύβη (cottage, hovel, hut, shack, shed), κουκέτα (berth, bunk), σπιτάκι (maisonnette), προφυλακτήρας δακτύλων για χειρούργους (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall), ελαστική καλυπτρίς (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall), δακτυλήθρα (fingerstall, thimble), δακτυλίθρα (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכלא�" (byre, corral, fold, pale, pen, pound, stockade), מטת ת� וק (crib), מצע (bed, couch, mattress), �"יר (fold, hutch, pen, shed, store). (various references)

Hungarian

kiságy (crib), kempingágy (camp bed). (various references)

Indonesian

velbed, pondok (cabin, cottage, hostel, hovel, hut, lodge). (various references)

Irish

cliabhán. (various references)

Italian

branda (camp bed, camp-bed). (various references)

Manx

clean (bird cage, cradle, pannier, potato creel, twig basket). (various references)

Norwegian

barneseng. (various references)

Pig Latin

otcay

Portuguese

choupana (barrack, bothy, cabin, crib, hole, hovel, hut, lodge, shack, shanty, shed), chalé (chalet, cottage, lodge), cama estreita, cabana (bothy, cabana, cabin, cottage, crib, hangar, hovel, hut, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), dedo de luva (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall), dedeira (finger cot, finger guard, finger-guard, fingerstall, finger-stall), dedal (thimble), berço (cradle, crib), alpendre (gallery, hovel, lean-to, marquise, outhouse, penthouse, porch, shed, terrace). (various references)

Romanian

cabanã (box, chalet, hospice, hovel, hut, shed), pat de copil (crib), pat de campanie (camp bed, field-bed, folding bed), pat (bed, bedstead, bunk, couch, doss, layer, pad, pallet, stalemate), hamac (hammock), şopron (barn, Cote, shed), adãpost (bunker, burrow, cover, covert, coverture, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, house, housing, kennel, lair, lodgment, nest, niche, penthouse, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roofing, safeguard, sanctuary, sconce, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, stall, support). (various references)

Russian 

раскладушка (camp-cot), койка в больнице, загон (corral, cote, paddock, pen, pound, roundup, yard), детская кроватка (crib). (various references)

Scottish

crò (a sheep cot, eye of a needle, fold). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poljski krevet (camp-cot, folding cot, tent-bed). (various references)

Spanish

cuna (bassinet, cradle, crib, place of birth), catre (camp-bed), camita de niño (child's bed), camita (bedstead), dedil (fingerstall). (various references)

Swedish

vagga (cradle, rock, swing, wag, waggle, wave, wobble), barnsäng (childbed, childbirrth, crib, lying-in). (various references)

Thai

เตียงพับไ�"้, บ้านหลังเล็กๆ. (various references)

Turkish

portatif karyola (camp bed, carry cot, folding bed), kümes (coop, Cote, fowl run, hencoop, hut, hutch, pen), küçük kulübe, bebek karyolası, ağıl (aureola, aureole, compound, corral, Cote, fold, halation, hovel, lair, pen, Pinfold, pound, sheep fold, sheep pen, stockyard, yard). (various references)

Ukrainian

розкладушка (camp bed, camp-cot), койка (bunk), дитяче ліжко (crib). (various references)

Vietnamese 

giường nhỏ. (various references)

Welsh

bwth (booth, hut). (various references)

grabattis, grabatto, grabattum, lectulus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cot": cotan, cotangent, cotangents, cotans, cote, coteau, coteaus, coteaux, coted, cotenant, cotenants, coterie, coteries, coterminous, coterminously, cotes, cothurn, cothurni, cothurns, cothurnus, cotidal, cotillion, cotillions, cotillon, cotillons, coting, cotoneaster, cotoneasters, cotquean, cotqueans, cotransduce, cotransduced, cotransduces, cotransducing, cotransduction, cotransductions, cotransfer, cotransferred, cotransferring, cotransfers, cotransport, cotransported, cotransporting, cotransports, cotrustee, cotrustees, cots, cotta, cottae, cottage, cottager. (additional references)

Words ending with "cot": apricot, ascot, dicot, dovecot, escot, haricot, mascot, massicot, monocot, picot, polycot, scot, sheepcot, tricot, wainscot. (additional references)

Words containing "cot": actinomycotic, adrenocorticotrophic, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotrophins, adrenocorticotropic, adrenocorticotropin, adrenocorticotropins, antiboycott, antiboycotts, apricots, ascots, boycott, boycotted, boycotter, boycotters, boycotting, boycotts, butterscotch, butterscotches, cocotte, cocottes, corticotrophin, corticotrophins, corticotropin, corticotropins, dicots, dicotyl, dicotyledon, dicotyledonous, dicotyledons, dicotyls, discotheque, discotheques, dovecote, dovecotes, dovecots, ecoterrorism, ecoterrorisms, ecoterrorist, ecoterrorists, ecotonal, ecotone, ecotones, ecotourism, ecotourisms, ecotourist, ecotourists, ecotype, ecotypes, ecotypic, entrecote. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acot, Acott, bcot, catt, catv, cbt, cbto, Cctu, cdt, cet, cett, cft, choot, chot, Chott, citt, Cmot, cmt, cnt, coch, coet, cof, coft, coitu, coj, comt, coote, cooth, cooti, cooty, copti, cort, Cota, coth, coti, Coto, Cotw, coty, Cotz, cou, cout, cov, cpt, Cpti, croot, crot, ctd, cto, cuft, cujt, cutn, Cutt, cutv, cvo, cyt, icot, Koot, kot, koto, Kto, kut, Octo, Octu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: to.

+1 letter: clot, coat, coft, colt, coot, cost, cote, cots, otic, scot, taco, torc.

+2 letters: actor, ascot, botch, canto, cento, chott, cloot, cloth, clots, clout, coact, coapt, coast, coati, coats, colts, comet, compt, comte, conte, conto, coopt, coots, coset, costa, costs, cotan, coted, cotes, cotta, count, court, couth, covet, croft, cyton, dicot, escot, hotch, lotic, notch, octad, octal, octan, octet, octyl, ontic, optic, picot, recto, rotch, scoot, scots, scout, stock, stoic, tacos, taroc, tonic, topic, torch, torcs, toric, touch, toxic, trock.