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cote | clote |

As a proper noun cote

is .

As a noun clote is

(obsolete) the common burdock; the clotbur.

cote

English

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) cote, the feminine form of . Cognate to Dutch kot.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cottage or hut.
  • A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
  • * Milton
    • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes .
    Related terms
    * dovecote * sheepcote
    Synonyms
    * shed

    Etymology 2

    See quote.

    Verb

    (cot)
  • (obsolete) To quote.
    • (Udall)

    Etymology 3

    Probably related to (etyl) .

    Verb

    (cot)
  • To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
    • A dog cotes a hare.
    (Drayton)
  • * Shakespeare
    • We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
  • * 1825 , , The Talisman , A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
    • [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    clote

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
  • * 1380s , , 9, vi,
    • A nettle schal enherite the desirable siluer of hem, a clote schal be in the tabernaclis of hem.
  • * 14thC', '', '''1987 , Larry Dean Benson (editor), ''The Riverside Chaucer , 2008, 3rd Edition, page 270,
    • A clote -leef he hadde under his hood / For swoot and for to keep his heed from heete.
    (Webster 1913)