Crossword clues for cotter
cotter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, perhaps a shortened form of cotterel, a dialectal word for "cotter pin or bolt, bracket to hang a pot over a fire" (1560s), itself of uncertain origin.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context mechanical engineering English) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together. 2 (context informal English) a cotter pin. vb. (context transitive English) To fasten with a cotter. Etymology 2
alt. A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage. n. A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 501
Land area (2000): 2.465371 sq. miles (6.385282 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.465371 sq. miles (6.385282 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15490
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 36.274772 N, 92.528336 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72626
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cotter
Housing Units (2000): 19
Land area (2000): 0.233849 sq. miles (0.605666 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.233849 sq. miles (0.605666 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16725
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.292202 N, 91.467217 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cotter
Wikipedia
Cotter may refer to:
- Cotter pin (disambiguation), a pin or wedge used to fix parts rigidly together
- Cotter (farmer), the Scots term for a peasant farmer formerly in the Scottish highlands
- Cotter (surname), an surname (including a list of people with the name)
- Cotter, Arkansas, United States
- Cotter, Iowa, United States
- Mount Cotter, a mountain in California, United States
- Cotter River, a river in the Australian Capital Territory
- A cotter is a term for a clump of tangled hair or animal fur, in some parts of Northern England.
- Cotter (film), a 1973 film by Paul Stanley
Cotter is a surname that originates in England and Ireland. It can also be an Anglicization, chiefly in North America, of a similar sounding German surname.
Cotter, cottier, cottar, Kosatter or Kötter is the German or Scots term for a peasant farmer (formerly in the Scottish highlands for example). Cotters occupied cottages and cultivated small plots of land. The word cotter is often employed to translate the cotarius of Domesday Book, a class whose exact status has been the subject of some discussion, and is still a matter of doubt. According to Domesday, the cotarii were comparatively few, numbering less than seven thousand, and were scattered unevenly throughout England, being principally in the southern counties; they were occupied either in cultivating a small plot of land, or in working on the holdings of the villani. Like the villani, among whom they were frequently classed, their economic condition may be described as free in relation to every one except their lord.
A cottar or cottier is also a term for a tenant renting land from a farmer or landlord.
Highland Cotters (including on the islands, such as Mull) were impacted by the Industrial Revolution, as landowners realized they could make more money from sheep than crops. The landowners raised rents to unaffordable prices, or forcibly evicted entire villages, leading to mass exodus and an influx of former cotters into industrial centers, such as a burgeoning Glasgow.
A cotter is a pin or wedge passing through a hole to fix parts tightly together. In British usage cotter pin has the same meaning, but in the U.S. it refers to a different fastener.
Typical applications are in fixing a crank to its crankshaft, as in a bicycle, or a piston rod to a crosshead, as in a steam engine. Note: the angle of the wedge determines the position of the parts being held, therefore on a bicycle the pedal arms will only be at 180 degrees to each other if the angle of the cotter pin's wedge is the same on both pins.
Usage examples of "cotter".
They had hit it off since the first day when Murdock was named to replace Lieutenant Vincent Cotter, who had been KIA in the Shuba airport raid in Iraq.
There are millionaires working for Cotter with undescended testicles and training bras.
This night, James Sargon, the proprietor, was seated in the little office back of the store when Maurice Cotter, his trusted junior partner, came in to inform him that Raymond Dagwood and Horace Fenwick had come to the shop.
Garcia is probably well taken care of by Cotter, but in return Cotter not only raises bananas and coffee, but has a goodly portion of the shipping and export business connected with the Guatemalan fruit industry.
Hal Cotter from Pembina, Jack Lambert from Towner, and Gerry Kruse from the state.
The Swiss pointed to his head offices outside Geneva, not five kilometres from where the World Wide Web itself had been devised and declared Cotter to be Swisser than a yodel.
He was fifteen and as sandy-haired as his three younger siblings, which Amanda knew not because she kept detailed files on every student, but because the Cotters lived two doors away from Graham and her.
Once, right after he has moved in, the miller oils the cotter that holds the oak lever in place and retightens the keys in the tenons to do justice to the occasion: a miller has moved into a mill.
Likewise, next door and one floor up, twin lamps in twin windows, coupled with twin shadows cavorting, vouched for the presence of the Cotter twins.
They had the wheel back on the axle when Dowell discovered that there were no more cotter pins or kingpins in the wagon.
Aramina wanted to know as she took the pegs and noticed, with a pang, how carefully Dowell had made a cotter hole in the kingpin.
Two enlisted technicians heavily bundled in foul-weather gear followed us up, made sure our ejection harnesses were securely fastened, then pulled out the cotter pins that disabled the ejection seats.
Cotter didn't seem to have any links with organized crime, he didn't overtly support or own any politicians (though it was hard to believe he couldn't influence his share of them), he lived in the old-money Grandin Road area of Hyde Park, and he seemed to have only two passions in life: making money and collecting art.
He was held together by cotter pins, hose clamps, nuts, bolts, and magnets.
But he had not entered the Naval Service, he went on to tell Ensign Cotter, to administer to the minor aches and pains of the Naval brass gathered around the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, Southwest Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur, and especially not to cater to their grossly overdeveloped sense of medical self-protection.