(pathology, Britain) The unexplained death of a baby, usually while sleeping.

plural of cot death

(obsolete, derogatory) A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman; an effeminate man. / (obsolete, derogatory) A female cuckold; a cuckquean.

An inflatable cot for babies for use in an emergency such as evacuation from an aeroplane onto water.

(architecture) A small or subsidiary construction, frequently corbelled out from the walls of a structure, and used to contain and support one or more bells.

plural of cot-quean

Alternative form of fingercot

(phonology) A phonemic merger in some varieties of English (especially American and Canadian English) in which the vowels in words such as hot and doll (/ɒ/) and in words such as law and talk (/ɔː/) are pronounced identically, making the words cot and caught homophones.

(slang) prison / (slang) shelter

(Australia) A cot for infants with a hinged lid fitted with fine mesh to keep out insects.