[kot-ij] 
| 1. | a small house, usually of only one story. |
| 2. | a small, modest house at a lake, mountain resort, etc., owned or rented as a vacation home. |
| 3. | one of a group of small, separate houses, as for patients at a hospital, guests at a hotel, or students at a boarding school. |
| cot·tage (kŏt'ĭj) n.
[Middle English cotage, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin cotāgium, of Germanic origin.] |
Cottage
(1.) A booth in a vineyard (Isa. 1:8); a temporary shed covered with leaves or straw to shelter the watchman that kept the garden. These were slight fabrics, and were removed when no longer needed, or were left to be blown down in winter (Job 27:18). (2.) A lodging-place (rendered "lodge" in Isa. 1:8); a slighter structure than the "booth," as the cucumber patch is more temporary than a vineyard (Isa. 24:20). It denotes a frail structure of boughs supported on a few poles, which is still in use in the East, or a hammock suspended between trees, in which the watchman was accustomed to sleep during summer. (3.) In Zeph. 2:6 it is the rendering of the Hebrew _keroth_, which some suppose to denote rather "pits" (R.V. marg., "caves") or "wells of water," such as shepherds would sink.
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