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▪ I. coterell1 Feudal Antiq.|ˈkɒtərəl|
Also cotterell, -ill.
[a. OF. coterel, med.L. coterellus, dim. of OF. cotier, med.L. cotārius, coterius, the occupant of a cota or cot. Cf. coterie.]
A cottar, a cottager.
[c1086Domesday Bk. (Du Cange), Septem villani quisque de una virgata, & 16 coterelli, & 2 servi. 1289Charter in Kennett Par. Antiq. I. 439 Una cum villanis, coterellis, eorum catallis, serviciis, sectis et sequelis.] 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 97 (MSS. G & I) These were almes..to comfortie suche coterels [other MSS. cotyers]. Ibid. 193 (MS. I) As coterels þei lybben. 1440Promp. Parv. 96/1 Coterelle. 1560in Crossraguel Chart. (1886) I. 120 His and thair subtennentis, cottrallis, servandis, and assignayes. 1866Macm. Mag. XIII. 252 Besides these villains there are eight coterells or cottagers, four of whom are women and probably widows. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. iv. 75 There are nine coterells, each holding a cottage, and most of them an acre of land.
¶ Applied (erroneously) to the tenement.
1617Minsheu Ductor, Coshe or Coterell in old English, is the same that a Cottage, or a little house. [Hence in Phillips 1657–1706.] c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 193 Each Copiholder of a yard land, halfe yard land, farrundle, and Cotterell.
▪ II. coterell2 dial.
[a. OF. couturelle, *coturele, dim. of couture, coture cultivated land:—L. cultūra tillage, culture, in med.L. = ager cultus.]
(See quots.)
1748De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. I. 153 (D.) Here [Sheppey-isle] are several Tumuli in the marshy parts all over the island, some of which the inhabitants call Coterels; these are supposed to have been cast up in memory of some of the Danish leaders who were buried here. 1887Kentish Gloss., Coterell, a little raised mound in the marshes to which the shepherds and their flocks can retire when the salterns are submerged by the tide. |