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cot

noun as in temporary bed

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Nursing officer Bill McGuire has moved a cot into an unused office and sleeps at the facility most nights.

Her own son barely survived a bout with the condition — requiring an emergency blood transfusion — because of a lack of available phototherapy cots, where jaundiced babies are treated under a special light.

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One cool additional feature in our Meaner Bean was a hanging cot for our daughter that essentially acted like a low hammock.

That means you’re probably not going to like this cot if you’re a side sleeper.

I’m determined to buy three more of these cots so every member of the family can have one.

I stripped down to my gym shorts and stretched out on my cot.

“I was at first on a cot, and then in a succession of accommodations,” he says.

Apparently, Ryan tried bragging about how he sleeps in a cot in his office—to a nun.

A small cot in the corner even provided a rest area for KGB agents when the listening sessions stretched through the night.

Even as he sits and weeps alone on his cot, multiple personalities surround him.

They stopped presently before a cell, and when the light had been turned on, she saw Baptiste sitting on a cot.

The dawn, peeping in between the flowered curtains, throws a white, innocent light over her cot.

Because of its recumbent position, symbolic of General Lee resting on a battlefield cot, this statue is considered most unique.

The little blue placard hung over the cot, as in the foundling hospitals, states the child's nationality: "Moldo, Wallachian."

In my cell, as in the others, there was a narrow iron cot, which could be folded and propped up to the cell wall.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cot, such as: bunk, berth, gurney, trundle, army bed, and camp bed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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