Synonyms of the word

cot

• n. (US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes; a camp bed.
• n. (nautical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction…
• n. A crib (child's bed).
• n. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
• n. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons; a cote.
• n. A cover or sheath. A fingerstall.
• n. A small, crudely-formed boat.

bed

• n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
• n. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
• n. (heading) A layer or surface.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
• v. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

crib

• n. (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown…
• n. (Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
• n. (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel.
• n. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
• n. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such…
• n. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and…
• n. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
• n. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
• n. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle.
• n. (obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
• n. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
• n. (slang) One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.
• n. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below,…
• n. (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written…
• n. (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
• n. (cribbage) Short for the card game cribbage.
• n. (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
• n. (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then…
• n. (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A packed lunch taken to work.
• n. (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
• v. (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
• v. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
• v. (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or…
• v. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
• v. (India) To complain, to grumble.
• v. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
• v. (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

fingerstall

• n. A protective cover for a finger. A cot.

sheath

• n. A scabbard; a holster for a sword.
• n. Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard for a sword that is for the purpose of holding an object…
• n. The insulating outer cover of an electrical cable.
• n. A tight-fitting dress.
• n. (Britain) A condom.
• n. The foreskin of certain animals, e.g. dogs and horses.
• n. The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
• n. One of the elytra of an insect.
• v. To put an object (especially a weapon, in particular, a sword) into its sheath.