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/kɒt/ · noun
(Canada, US, Philippines) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes..
There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.
the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
a cot for a sore finger
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.
Use cot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cot means (Canada, US, Philippines) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes..
Common synonyms include camp bed, crib, cote, fingerstall.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.
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