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Cotter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Cotter has 3 senses
- cotter(n = noun.person) cottar - a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands; Array is a kind of bucolic, peasant, provincial
- cotter(n = noun.person) cottier - a medieval English villein; Array is a kind of helot, serf, villein
- cotter(n = noun.artifact) cottar - fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together; Array has particulars: cotter pin
is a kind of fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast
CIDE DICTIONARY
Cotter, n. [LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot.].
A cottager; a cottier. Burns. [1913 Webster]
"Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter." [1913 Webster]
Good morrow to the cotter." [1913 Webster]
Cotter, n.
A toggle. [1913 Webster]
"[See Illust.]"
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Cotter, v. t.
To fasten with a cotter. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Cotter, n.
1 a bolt or wedge for securing parts of machinery etc.
2 (in full cotter pin) a split pin that opens after passing through a hole.
1 a bolt or wedge for securing parts of machinery etc.
2 (in full cotter pin) a split pin that opens after passing through a hole.
Etymology
17th c. (rel. to earlier cotterel): orig. unkn.
ROGET THESAURUS
Cotter
Inhabitant
N inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.
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