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Cottar

noun
1.
A peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands.  Synonym: cotter.
2.
Fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together.  Synonym: cotter.





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"Cottar" Quotes from Famous Books



... labour-rent which parted one class of the population from another. The "villein," in the strict sense of the word, was bound only to gather in his lord's harvest and to aid in the ploughing and sowing of autumn and Lent. The cottar, the bordar, and the labourer were bound to help in the work of the home-farm ...
— History of the English People, Volume I (of 8) - Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 • John Richard Green
... fear her not. She is but a poor harmless body," said Kenric. "Only the witless carls and cottar folk are so simple as to believe that she has aught ...
— The Thirsty Sword • Robert Leighton


Words linked to "Cottar" :   bucolic, fixing, fastener, fastening, peasant, holdfast, provincial, cotter pin


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