From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcotcot /kɒt $ kɑːt/ noun [countable] 1 British EnglishDHF a small bed with high sides for a baby or young child SYN crib American English2 American EnglishDHF a camp bed
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cot• Cots were set up in the local high school for flood victims.• The daughters slept in one bed, the parents in another, the son on a cot.• Grandfather clocks, davenport desks, cots, piano, mangle, even silhouettes in tiny oval frames.• She plops down on the empty cot and lifts a curtain to peer out the window.• After recovering from an attack of shallow breathing he recovered and one nurse said he was smiling and cooing in his cot.• Children's playground; playroom; paddling pool; children's section of main pool; cots and high chairs.• Where stated a baby's cot can be supplied at a charge of £5 per week.• Tlere was no way to keep the two cots curtained off; they were always being exposed to serve as sofas.• Gandhi lay on a white cot in the prison yard under a spreading mango tree.Origin cot (1600-1700) Hindi khat “hammock, bed”