n. A small house; a cottage; a hut; a mean habitation.n. A small bed or crib for a child to sleep in; also, a portable bed formed of canvas, webbing, or other material fastened to a light frame, often made cross-legged to permit folding up. Also called cot-bed.n. Nautical, a swinging bed or hammock of canvas, stiffened by a wooden frame, and having upright sides of canvas to protect the sleeper.n. A leather cover for a finger, used to protect the finger when it is injured or sore, or to shield it from injury, as in dissecting; a finger-stall.n. A sheath or sleeve, as the clothing for a drawing-roller in a spinning-frame.n. Refuse wool.n. A fleece of wool matted together; a lock of wool or hair clung together.n. A little boat.n. An effeminate person.n. An abbreviation of cotangent.