cote
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /kəʊt/
美 /koʊt/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A cottage or hut.
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A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
— Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
动词 v.
- Obsolete form of quote.
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To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
— A dog cotes a hare.
词源
词源 1
From Middle English cote, from the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.
词源 2
See quote.
词源 3
Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.
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