COTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cote mean? 

• COTE (noun)
  The noun COTE has 1 sense:

1. a small shelter for domestic animals (as sheep or pigeons)

  Familiarity information: COTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small shelter for domestic animals (as sheep or pigeons)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cote" is a kind of...):

shelter (protective covering that provides protection from the weather)

 Context examples 

Two thousand a year without debt or drawback—except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)