cott

cott (plural cotts)

1. Obsolete spelling of cot (“simple bed”).
   • 1698, John Fryer, A new account of East-India and Persia, page 18:

     […] where did sit the King in state, at the upper end of such a Place as before was taken notice of, on a Cott, or Bed, strewed with a Quilt.

Borrowed from Irish coite (“small boat”).

cott

1. boat
   • 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):

     Cott,

     Boat.

cott m (genitive singular cott, plural cottyn)

1. cot, cottage

• cotteyr