cottier

British  

/ ˈkɒtɪə /

noun

1. another name for cotter 2

2. (in Ireland) a peasant farming a smallholding under cottier tenure (the holding of not more than half an acre at a rent of not more than five pounds a year)

3. another name for cottager

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Etymology

Origin of cottier

C14: from Old French cotier; see _cote ¹ , _coterie

Example Sentences

All the rest are Catholics, 14 of these being cottier tenants.

From Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by Hurlbert, William Henry

At the altar, serf and master, count or cottier, knelt side by side.

From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by Miles, George Henry

On the opposite bank sit in dreary solitude a starving cottier and his family.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

The competition in Ireland was for the possession of land, at an extravagant rent, out of the labour upon which the cottier could only obtain the very lowest amount of necessaries for his subsistence.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles

The farmer puts in the crop for the manure, the cottier paying the farmer's rent—5s. to 10s. a rood, or whatever it may be.

From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James