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cot

Noun

Meaning

A small house; a cottage or hut.

A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.

A small, rudely-formed boat.

A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Here's a pot with a cot in a park In a park where the peach-blossoms blew, Where the lovers eloped in the dark, Lived, died and were changed into two Bright birds that eternally flew Through the boughs of the may, as they sang; 'T is a tale was undoubtedly true In the reign of the Emperor Hwang. Andrew Lang

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. Samuel Rogers

We cannot all afford a farm in Cuba or a suite at the George V in newly liberated Paris, and more often than not must strive to forge our clean, well-lighted sentences at a folding table wedged between the baby's cot and the dining table. John Banville

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic. Frank Bruno

Some day the world will need a man! I stand beside his cot at night And wonder if I'm teaching him, as best I can, to know the right. I am the father of a boy - his life is mine to make or mar - And he no better can become than what my daily teachings are. Edgar Guest

Who weds a sot to get his cot, will lose the cot and keep the sot. Dutch Proverb

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