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a bed pretending it's furniture until a toddler or a soldier collapses onto it
means A small, simple, often portable or collapsible bed — for a baby, a soldier, a patient, or anyone caught short of a proper mattress.
from From Hindi 'khat' (a bedstead or couch), picked up by the British in India and brought home — a souvenir word from the days of empire. Note the split: in British English 'cot' usually means a baby's barred bed, while in American English it leans toward the foldaway camp bed, but both trace back to that same Indian frame.
- naval roots
- Sailors slept in suspended cots before hammocks took over
- word origin
- From Hindi khat, meaning bedstead or couch
- safety rules
- Modern crib slats must be under 6 cm apart
- folding power
- Military cots collapse flat for instant barracks deployment
- crib death
- Back-sleeping campaigns cut SIDS rates by half
cot death — sudden unexpected nocturnal death in infants, affects approximately 1 in 1000 live births in developed countries
cot index — commitments of traders report by cftc tracking large trader positions in us futures markets since 1992