COTTER

Cotter

Cotter, cottier, cottar, Kosatter or Kötter is the German or Scots term for a peasant farmer . Cotters occupied cottages and cultivated small plots of land. The word cotter is often employed to translate the cotarius of Domesday Book, a class whose exact status has been the subject of some discussion, and is still a matter of doubt. According to Domesday, the cotarii were comparatively few, numbering less than seven thousand, and were scattered unevenly throughout England, being principally in the southern counties; they were occupied either in cultivating a small plot of land, or in ...

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cotter

Noun

  1. A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
  2. a cotter pin.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.

Verb

  1. To fasten with a cotter.


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