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

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 Lever, Charles James

Unlike the peasant proprietor," says Lecky, "and also unlike the mediaeval serf, the cottier had no permanent interest in the soil, and no security for his future position.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan

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 Trollope, Anthony

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 Thebaud, Augustus J.

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