Synonyms for cotton
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kot-n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒt n |
Définition of cotton
Origin :- late 13c., from Old French coton (12c.), ultimately (via Provençal, Italian, or Old Spanish) from Arabic qutn, a word perhaps of Egyptian origin. Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden sent the first cotton seeds to American colony of Georgia in 1732. Also ultimately from the Arabic word, Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Provençal coton, Italian cotone, Spanish algodon, Portuguese algodão. Cotton gin is recorded from 1794 (see gin (n.2)).
- verb understand
- Two of us were going in company, each with a load of cotton.
- Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
- The cotton was thrown overboard as fast as we could, and what the men could not start the seas did.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Here I quarrelled with the captain about some cotton wick, and I threw up my situation.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- We got to the latter port without accident, and took in a cargo of cotton.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- There is no account of indigo, and the cultivation of cotton had not commenced.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
- It was in America that the first cotton corner was conceived.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- Then its heads or pods open into five parts, and expose their cotton to view.
- Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
- There had been a great fire in the cotton green towards Colaba.
- Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
- Guide it to its place with the thumb, and run it from side to side of the reel like cotton on a spool.
- Extract from : « Black Bass » by Charles Barker Bradford
- No end of cotton and needles had to be sold to get such a sum together!
- Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
Antonyms for cotton
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