cottar
/ˈkɒtə
/(also cotter)
noun historical
(In Scotland and Ireland) a farm labourer or tenant occupying a cottage in return for labour.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.
- 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 cot2 + -ar4.
Rhymes
- Passendale
- Passendale, Battle of
- passenger
- passenger cell
- passenger coach
- passenger door
- passenger-kilometer
- passenger-kilometre
- passengerless
- passenger mile
- passenger mileage
- passenger pigeon
- passenger seat
- passenger side
- passenger train
- passepartout
- passepartouted
- passepartout frame
- passepied
- passe-pierre
- passer
- passer-by
- passerelle
- Passeres
- passeriform