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

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

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

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

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

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 George Henry Miles

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