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   Cot

   /kät/

   

   noun

   • 1. a camp bed, particularly a portable, collapsible one: "the homeless survivors were put up on army cots in the local high school"
   • ▪ a plain narrow bed: "every night she visits an aged invalid in his narrow cot"
   • ▪ a baby's crib: "he should be put back into his own cot to sleep"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (originally Anglo-Indian, denoting a light bedstead): from Hindi khāṭ ‘bedstead, hammock’.

   Scrabble Points: 5

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • T

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