cote
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of cote
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A cottage or hut.
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noun
- A cottage or hut.
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A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
“Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.”
verb
- (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of quote.
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(obsolete)To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
“A dog cotes a hare.”
“We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.”
“…strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.”
name
- A surname from French.
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Etymology
From Middle English cote, from the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.
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