cottar

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.

Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

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.

Robert Falconer

Here, had a cottar encountered me under such circumstances, I would doubtless have been thought a witch or a fairy.

Sick Cycle Carousel

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.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

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.

Brother Cadfael's Penance

"I'm a man of my hands," said the cottar confidently.

Brother Cadfael's Penance

This wasn't a cottar or a herder that stood before him.

Dragonfly in Amber

Hugh knew every cottar and tinker, every farmhouse and manor within four parishes.

Dragonfly in Amber

It's taken a time to fill in all the comings and goings of his day, but we've dredged up at last a cottar at the edge of Frankwell who knows him, and saw him going up the pastures to his flock well before Vespers that afternoon.

The Heretic's Apprentice

The first they had spent with a solitary cottar and his wife a mile or so beyond the hamlet of Weston, and the day between had been long, and this second-shelter in the early reaches of the forest came very warmly and gratefully.

The Confession of Brother Haluin