cottar
/ˈkɒtə
/(also cotter)
noun historical
(In Scotland and Ireland) a farm labourer or tenant occupying a cottage in return for labour.He had also freeborn cottars and slaves to farm his land....
- All villeins and cottars in the Seven Kingdoms gather to celebrate the successful harvests of the summer seasons and to prepare for the coming winter.
- All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars.
Origin
Late Old English, from cot2 + -ar4.
Rhymes
- Judas-colored
- be (or be caught) in a cleft stick
- be (or come) along
- be (or come) late to the party
- be (or come) nowhere
- be (or find oneself) in a minority of one
- be (or get) across something
- be (or get) dialled in
- be (or get) lost in the shuffle
- be (or get) mixed up in
- be (or get) mixed up with
- be (or get) shut of
- be (or go) on the lash
- be (or go) on the piss
- be (or go) on the shicker
- be (or have a) down on
- be (or have something) written all over one (or one's face)
- be (or look) a picture
- be (or make) friends with
- be (or make) so bold (as to do something)
- be (or put oneself) in another person's shoes
- be (or stand) in awe of
- Beothuk
- be out of here (or there)
- be out of (or have gone out with) the ark