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cottiers
n. (plural of cottier English)
Usage examples of "cottiers".
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.