Crossword clues for cottier
cottier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of cotter English) (one performing labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage)
WordNet
n. a medieval English villein [syn: cotter]
Wikipedia
Cottier is a surname. It is of English origin, but can also be an Americanized form of a French and Swiss surname.
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.