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Definition of cottar in English: cottar(also cotter) noun ˈkɒtəˈkɑdər historical (in Scotland and Ireland) a farm labourer or tenant occupying a cottage in return for labour. Example sentencesExamples - All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars.
- Though not free men, they were above the bordars and cottars who held less land, and well above the slaves, who had been numerous in Saxon England.
- He had also freeborn cottars and slaves to farm his land.
- All villeins and cottars in the Seven Kingdoms gather to celebrate the successful harvests of the summer seasons and to prepare for the coming winter.
- Go up into the north and see the cotters living on poorer and poorer than their fathers had been, crowded down and driven off good land on to poor land.
Origin Late Old English, from cot2 + -ar4. Rhymes blotter, cotta, dotter, gotta, hotter, jotter, knotter, otter, pelota, plotter, potter, ricotta, rotter, spotter, squatter, terracotta, totter, trotter Definition of cottar in US English: cottar(also cotter) nounˈkɑdərˈkädər historical (in Scotland and Ireland) a farm laborer or tenant occupying a cottage in return for labor. Example sentencesExamples - Go up into the north and see the cotters living on poorer and poorer than their fathers had been, crowded down and driven off good land on to poor land.
- He had also freeborn cottars and slaves to farm his land.
- Though not free men, they were above the bordars and cottars who held less land, and well above the slaves, who had been numerous in Saxon England.
- All villeins and cottars in the Seven Kingdoms gather to celebrate the successful harvests of the summer seasons and to prepare for the coming winter.
- All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars.
Origin Late Old English, from cot + -ar. |