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.