cot
/kɔt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.21 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
British usage
noun
A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
noun
A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
Example Sentences
- "There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse."
- "the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm"
- "One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot."
- "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"
- "[H]e would [...] return in the evening from the west of her cot to spend another hour or two in the garden."
- "a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)"
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: खाट, 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸, खट्वा, cot, *kutą, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɔt/
- British English: /kɒt/