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A medieval English villein
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cottier
Word definitions for cottier in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cottier \Cot"ti*er\ (-t[i^]*[~e]r), n. [OF. cotier. See Coterie , and cf. Cotter .] In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of cotter English) (one performing labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cottier is a surname . It is of English origin, but can also be an Americanized form of a French and Swiss surname.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a medieval English villein [syn: cotter ]
Usage examples of cottier.
He is delighted to see you, and bids you sit down on his battered bench without dreaming of any such apology as an English cottier offers to a Lady Bountiful when she calls.
I slept that night twenty miles off Ballywhacket, at the house of a cottier, who gave me potatoes and milk, and to whom I gave a hundred guineas after, when I came to visit Ireland in my days of greatness.
It was one of those tracts of land which had been divided and subdivided among the cottiers till the fields had dwindled down to parts of acres, each surrounded by rude low banks, which of themselves seemed to occupy a quarter of the surface of the land.
Because a cottiers deeply in arrears to his landlord is not industrious, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle.