cot

noun9

1. •
   (US, Canada) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
2. •
   (UK, Commonwealth) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
3. •
   (historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
4. •
   A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
5. •
   A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
6. •
   A small, crudely-formed boat.
7. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) vulva; vagina.
8. •
   (no longer used) A cottage or small homestead.

   • One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot. — 1790
9. •
   (no longer used) A man who does household work normally associated with women.

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of chain of thought.