Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A medieval villein who occupied a cottage with a small piece of land in return for labor.
- noun In Scotland and Ireland, a farm worker who, in return for a cottage, gives labor at a fixed rate when required.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch spelling of
cotter .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland Alternative form of
cotter (peasant inhabiting a cottage)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
- noun a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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They were, indeed, like other cottars, a kind of feudal dependents, occupying an acre or two of the land, in return for which they performed certain stipulated labour, called cottar-wark.
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He was what is called a cottar in Scotland, which name implies that of the large farm upon which he worked for yearly wages he had a little bit of land to cultivate for his own use.
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He was forced to turn off in order to find a house at which to ask guidance, and the cottar who came out to greet him eyed him with sharp attention when he asked for La Musarderie.
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Here, had a cottar encountered me under such circumstances, I would doubtless have been thought a witch or a fairy.
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"I'm a man of my hands," said the cottar confidently.
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The little party of four stood in its dappled shade by the fallen ruins of a mossy old hut, left long ago by some forgotten cottar.
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"I'm a man of my hands," said the cottar confidently.
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He was forced to turn off in order to find a house at which to ask guidance, and the cottar who came out to greet him eyed him with sharp attention when he asked for La Musarderie.
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This wasn't a cottar or a herder that stood before him.
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Hugh knew every cottar and tinker, every farmhouse and manor within four parishes.
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