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

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cottier

I'm a poor cottier, wid a bit of mountain-land—sorra more—and has no right to look up to one like her.

From St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever

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

She had no thought, then, of any dereliction, when in placing the fallen pages together within the envelope, her eye caught the words "Kitty O'Hara," and lower down, "child of a poor cottier."

From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Charles James Lever

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

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

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