carrycot
7.2
A small light bed with handles for carrying a baby
- noun
- /ˈkæriˌkɑt/
- UK
:
cesta para bebé
- After a long day out, he gently lifted the baby from the carrycot and put her to bed.
Examples
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The carrycot made it easy to transport the sleeping infant from the car to the house.
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The very fact of her existence was as if she were constantly crying in a carrycot at their feet.
Fiction book (1994) -
She placed the baby in the carrycot to take a stroll in the park.
Synonyms
baby bed
vscarrycot
1
1.0
A small bed with high sides that keeps a baby safe from falling out
is designed as a portable box bed with handles for sleeping while transported
baby's bed
vscarrycot
1.3
A small sleeping place with high sides that keeps a baby safe
is a portable box-shaped bed with handles for sleeping while being carried
How Portable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carrycot comes from the words carry and cot, where cot means a 'small bed'. So it literally means a small bed you 'carry', which is why a carrycot is a portable bed for a baby.