Cot

1. n. A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
2. n. A small house; a cottage or hut.
3. n. A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
4. n. A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.
5. n. A small, rudely-formed boat.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.