cot

noun

1. (Canada, Philippines, US)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.”

2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
3. (historical)A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
4. (archaic)A cottage or small homestead.

   “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.”

   “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”

5. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
6. A small, crudely-formed boat.
7. 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”

8. (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.”

9. (dated)vulva; vagina.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of chain of thought.