Cot

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kÉ’t/
• RP IPA: kÊ°É’t
• Australia IPA: kÊ°É”t
• Boston IPA: kʰɒːt
• US IPA: /kÉ‘t/
• GenAm IPA: kÊ°É‘t
• US-Northern Cities Vowel Shift IPA: kÊ°at
• Rhymes: -É’t

Origin

From Hindi खाट

Full definition of cot

Noun

1. (US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes; a camp bed.
2. (nautical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
3. A crib (child's bed).
4. A cover or sheath.a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)a cot for a sore finger
5. A finger cover used to prevent static discharge.
6. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
• Goldsmiththe sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
• 1898, Ethna Carbery, Roddy McCorley (poem).Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan
  From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban
7. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons; a cote.
8. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Anagrams

• CTO, Oct, Oct., OTC, TCO, TOC