Cots


[kot] /kɒt/

noun
1.
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
2.
British. a child’s crib.
3.
a light bedstead.
4.
Nautical. a hammocklike bed stiffened by a suspended frame.
[kot] /kɒt/
noun
1.
a small house; cottage; hut.
2.
a small place of shelter.
3.
a sheath or protective covering, as for an injured finger or toe.
/kɒt/
noun
1.
a child’s boxlike bed, usually incorporating vertical bars
2.
a collapsible or portable bed
3.
a light bedstead
4.
(nautical) a hammock-like bed with a stiff frame
/kɒt/
noun
1.
(literary or archaic) a small cottage
2.
Also called cote

3.
another name for fingerstall
/kɒt/
abbreviation
1.
cotangent
/kɒt/
verb cots, cotting, cotted
1.
(Midland English, dialect) to entangle or become entangled
n.

“small bed,” 1630s, from Hindi khat “couch, hammock,” from Sanskrit khatva, probably from a Dravidian source (cf. Tamil kattil “bedstead”).

“hut, cottage;” see cote.
cot
Abbreviation of cotangent

software
commercial off-the-shelf. See commercial software.
(2007-02-08)
commercial off-the-shelf
cotangent

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