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cot

/kot/US // kɒt //UK // (kɒt) //

小床,婴儿床,小屋,小木屋

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
    • : British. a child's crib.
    • : a light bedstead.
    • : Nautical. a hammocklike bed stiffened by a suspended frame.

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Examples

  • Nursing officer Bill McGuire has moved a cot into an unused office and sleeps at the facility most nights.

  • Her own son barely survived a bout with the condition — requiring an emergency blood transfusion — because of a lack of available phototherapy cots, where jaundiced babies are treated under a special light.

  • One cool additional feature in our Meaner Bean was a hanging cot for our daughter that essentially acted like a low hammock.

  • I’m determined to buy three more of these cots so every member of the family can have one.

  • That means you’re probably not going to like this cot if you’re a side sleeper.

  • I stripped down to my gym shorts and stretched out on my cot.

  • “I was at first on a cot, and then in a succession of accommodations,” he says.

  • Apparently, Ryan tried bragging about how he sleeps in a cot in his office—to a nun.

  • A small cot in the corner even provided a rest area for KGB agents when the listening sessions stretched through the night.

  • Even as he sits and weeps alone on his cot, multiple personalities surround him.

  • They stopped presently before a cell, and when the light had been turned on, she saw Baptiste sitting on a cot.

  • The dawn, peeping in between the flowered curtains, throws a white, innocent light over her cot.

  • Because of its recumbent position, symbolic of General Lee resting on a battlefield cot, this statue is considered most unique.

  • The little blue placard hung over the cot, as in the foundling hospitals, states the child's nationality: "Moldo, Wallachian."

  • In my cell, as in the others, there was a narrow iron cot, which could be folded and propped up to the cell wall.