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UK
/kˈɒtɐ/
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NOUN
- fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
- a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
How To Use cottar In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Indeed, over the centuries Catholic kings and popes gradually abolished the institution of slavery replacing ancient slavery with the Feudal serf and then replacing the serf and the unfree villeins, bordars and cottars with a free, land-owning peasantry and villeinage. The State's Obligation to Recognize and Protect the Catholic Church
- We rounded a turn and came upon all at once the tumbled ruins of a cottar's hut, blacked by fire, and trampled down as if by horse's hooves.
- He was what is called a cottar in Scotland, which name implies that of the large farm upon which he worked for yearly wages he had a little bit of land to cultivate for his own use. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
- I'm a man of my hands," said the cottar confidently. A River So Long
- Hugh knew every cottar and tinker, every farmhouse and manor within four parishes. Dragonfly in Amber