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

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Example Sentences

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cottier

He is delighted to see you, and bids you sit down on his battered bench without dreaming of any such apology as an English cottier offers to a Lady Bountiful when she calls.

From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope

Cott′ier, a cottar: an Irish tenant; Cott′ierism, the cottier system of land tenure.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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 Graham Everitt

These details appear calculated only to shock the feelings of the reader, already sufficiently acquainted with the lot of the Irish cottier and laborer, from the beginning of the last century.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thebaud

This is the system which now exists, yet the great landholders I have consulted describe it as the result which will be brought about by giving the fee-simple of holdings to cottier tenants.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker

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