cott
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cott (plural cotts)
- Obsolete spelling of cot (“simple bed”).
- 1698, John Fryer, A new account of East-India and Persia, page 18:
- […] where did sit the King in state, at the upper end of such a Place as before was taken notice of, on a Cott, or Bed, strewed with a Quilt.
Fingallian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Irish coite (“small boat”).
Noun
[edit]cott
- boat
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Cott,
- Boat.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
Manx
[edit]Noun
[edit]cott m (genitive singular cott, plural cottyn)