释义 |
cottagercot‧tag‧er /ˈkɒtɪdʒə $ ˈkɑːtɪdʒər/ noun [countable] - Butter and cheese were made on practically every farm and even the cottager killed and salted his own bacon.
- In pastoral Suffolk fewer than half this class were dependent on wages, presumably younger men who were not yet cottagers.
- Legislation may therefore have done relatively little to help tied cottagers or to improve low cost agricultural housing.
- Many of the cottagers in the neighbourhood keep one or more of these quaint pets.
- The county was characterised instead by numerous small farmers and cottagers.
- They set up the pageant in a village street, and not one cottager came out to greet them.
- Typically they were smallholders or cottagers, village craftsmen and superior servants.
- Whether the passage is a direct reference to enclosure or, more probably, to disagreements among cottagers, is not certain.
a person in the past who lived in a cottage |