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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

cot¹ / kät/ • n. a type of bed, in particular: ∎ a camp bed, particularly a portable, collapsible one. ∎ a plain narrow bed. ∎ Brit. a baby’s crib. cot² • n. a small shelter for livestock. ∎ archaic a small, simple cottage. cot³ Math. • abbr. cotangent.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

cot 2 light bedstead XVII; swinging bed for officers, the sick, etc., XVIII; small child's bed XIX. — Hindi khāt bedstead, couch, hammock :- Prakrit kha⃛⃛ā, Skr. khá⃛vā.

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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

cot.
1. Very humble small rural cottage, especially with wattled sides and a thatched roof, or a structure in a garden or park in imitation of it, but used as a retreat, summer-house, or similar.

2. Dovecote.

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JAMES STEVENS CURL. "cot." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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cot

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

cot, the wooden bed frame, enclosed in canvas and slung from deck beams, in which ships' officers slept before the permanent bunks in cabins were introduced.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

cot 1 cottage. OE. cot = MLG., MDu., ON. kot :- Gmc. *kutam, rel. to COTE.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

cot •allot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, rot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, sot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, twat, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht •robot • hotshot • peridot • microdot •Wyandot • polka dot • fylfot • mascot •Caldecott • carrycot • apricot •boycott • dovecote • sandlot • melilot •polyglot • Camelot • ocelot •monoglot • sub-plot • Lancelot •cachalot • counterplot • Wilmot •guillemot • motmot • bergamot

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cot (kɒt) Maths. cotangent

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FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "cot." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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