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cote
UK /kəʊt/ US /koʊt/
noun 2verb 2name 1
Collocations
1COTE + NOUN
antelope
Definitions
noun
1
A cottage or hut.
2
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.
verb
1
Obsolete form of quote.
verb
1
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
A dog cotes a hare.
We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
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Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
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A dog cotes a hare.
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We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
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…strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.
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