Cottar Definition

kätər
noun
A medieval villein who occupied a cottage with a small piece of land in return for labor.
American Heritage
In Scotland and Ireland, a farm worker who, in return for a cottage, gives labor at a fixed rate when required.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Cottar

Noun

Singular:
cottar
Plural:
cottars

Origin of Cottar

  • From Middle English coter from Old French coter, cotier akin to Medieval Latin cotārius Medieval Latin cota cottage (of Germanic origin) (and akin to Old English cot cottage) Latin -ārius adj. and n. suff

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cottar Sentence Examples

  • His idyllic masterpiece is the sustained transcript of winter scenery and home-life, Snow-Bound, which has had no equal except Longfellow's " Evangeline " in American favour, but, in fact," nothing of its class since " The Cottar's Saturday Night " can justly be compared with it.

  • An old man, a cottar in the parish, had got into trouble with his young servant lass.

  • There is also a class of cottar freeholders (junster).

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Words Starting With

CCOCOT

Words Ending With

RARTAR

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Words Starting With C and Ending With R

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