cottager
Americannoun
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a person who lives in a cottage.
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British. Also cottier a rural worker; a laborer on a farm or in a small village.
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a person having a private house at a vacation resort.
noun
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a person who lives in a cottage
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a rural labourer
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a person holidaying in a cottage, esp an owner and seasonal resident of a cottage in a resort area
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history another name for cotter 2
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The Baggies striker then forced a good stop from Fulham goalkeeper David Stockdale before former Cottager Zoltan Gera struck the post on the rebound and then Hughes headed away the following effort from Brunt.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2013
"There's too much litter at the all clear," said The Cottager.
From Time Magazine Archive
When once, however, he was thus disarmed, the Cottager was afraid of him no longer, but drove him away with his club.
From Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Jones, V. S. Vernon
After some time the Cottager, afraid that the Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt in the hole.
From Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Townsend, George Fyler
A Cottager and his wife had a Hen, which laid every day a golden egg.
From Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Weir, Harrison
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