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Noun: cotter  kó-tu(r)
  1. A peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
    - cottar
     
  2. A medieval English villein
    - cottier [archaic]
     
  3. Fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
    - cottar

Derived forms: cotters

Type of: bucolic, fastener, fastening, fixing, helot, holdfast, peasant, provincial, serf, villein

Encyclopedia: Cotter, Lawrence

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