cot

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).

noun

1. (Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
3. (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

noun

1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
   One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot. 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia
   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
2. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.

Etymology 3

From Irish cot, coit (“small boat”), from Proto-Celtic *quontio, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s (“path, road”), related to Gaulish and Latin ponto. Compare the first element of catboat, which could be a borrowing.

noun

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4

From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.

noun

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

Etymology 5

Contraction of cot-quean.

noun

1. (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
   You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag. 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347