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cottar

Noun

cot=tar

WORDNET DICTIONARY

cottar(n = noun.person) cotter - a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands; Array

is a kind of bucolic, peasant, provincial

cottar(n = noun.artifact) cotter - 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

cottar, 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]

cottar, n. (also cotter)
1 Sc. & hist. a farm-labourer or tenant occupying a cottage in return for labour as required.
2 Ir. hist. = COTTIER.

Etymology

COT(2) + -ER(1) (Sc. -ar)

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