Meaning of కొట్టు in English

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.
To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
To be deficient; to fail.
To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.
Barter.
A broad, shallow basket.
A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
A quick pace; a short run.
A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.
A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.
An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.
The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.
To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.