cote
cote — noun
1. a small wooden hut or coop on a farm, used to keep pigeons, doves, sheep, or oth
a small wooden hut or coop on a farm, used to keep pigeons, doves, sheep, or other tame animals safe overnight.
Felipe whitewashed the old pigeon cote behind the barn before spring arrived.
compound: pigeon cote
Every evening, Meera shooed the doves back into the wooden cote near the orchard.
into the cote (returning home)
A fox slipped through a gap in the sheep cote and frightened the new lambs.
The estate map from 1820 marked a small dovecote at the edge of the kitchen garden.
文法句型
a [animal] cote
in / inside the cote
用法筆記
Today the bare word 'cote' is rare on its own; you mostly meet it as part of compounds like 'dovecote', 'pigeon cote', or 'sheep cote'. Mostly found in rural, historical, or literary writing rather than in everyday conversation.
常見錯誤
cote — verb
1. in old hunting language, of a dog, to run past another dog or animal in the chas
in old hunting language, of a dog, to run past another dog or animal in the chase.
Owen watched in delight as his greyhound coted the rival pack on the open moor.
cote + animal (in chase)
The fastest hound of the day coted three others before reaching the wounded deer.
cote + multiple rivals
In his old hunting diary, Sari read how the spaniel coted the leading dog at the bend.
Shakespeare uses the word when describing how one greyhound cotes another in full chase.
- trail
lag behind rather than pass
文法句型
cote + noun
用法筆記
Almost never met in modern English; survives mainly in old hunting manuals, dictionaries of obsolete words, and one well-known Shakespeare reference. Subject is a hunting dog; object is another dog or the prey animal it overtakes.