† cotmann.
Historical.
The tenant of a cot or cottage; a cottager, ‘cotset’, or ‘coterell’; in Scottish a cottar. Also attributive, as in cotman land, agricultural land held by a cotman.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > inhabitants of specific types of house > cottager by service of labour
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1086 Domesday Bk. (1783) I. f. 177/1 [Phillimore: Worcs. 20. 6] viii bordarii & iiii cotmanni cum ii carucis.
1358 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 24 Quilibet cotmannus habeat partem suam pasturæ.
1559 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 142 I bequith unto every cotman within the towne of Myddilton ijd a pece.
1584 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 13 Everie house holder, as well gentle men as also husbandmen and cote men.
1823 Caledonian Mercury 20 Nov. (Jam.) A boy belonging to a cotman on the farm.
1882 C. Elton Orig. Eng. Hist. 193 At Rotherfield..there are three kinds of land, Assart, Farthing-land and Cotmanland.
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