coatnoun/ˈkoʊ̯t/

• 1

  businessclothingfashionAn outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.

  • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…]Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
• 2

  A covering of material, such as paint.

  • fresh coat of paint
  • Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.
• 3

  The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.

  • Near-synonym: pelt
  • When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.
• 4

  nauticaltransportCanvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).

• 5

  obsoleteA petticoat.

  • a child in coats
• 6

  The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.

  • Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.
  • She was sought by spirits of richest coat.
• 7

  A coat of arms.

  • Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat.
• 8

  A coat card.

  • Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.

coatverb/ˈkoʊ̯t/

• 1

  To cover with a coating of some material.

  • The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.
  • Door grab handles have been coated with an anti-microbial finish.
• 2

  To cover like a coat.

• 3

  archaicTo clothe.

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• Coate