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cottar

cottar is the alternative form of cotter.

Meaning of cotter

Noun (1)

cotter (plural cotters)

  1. A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
    • The chains are secured to each end of the cast-iron arches by cotters.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: The High Level Bridge, Newcastle”, in Railway Magazine, page 407
  2. (informal) A cotter pin.

Noun (2)

cotter (plural cotters)

  1. (historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
    • The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes,— / This night his weekly moil is at an end,— / Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, […]1786, Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night
    Synonyms:
    coscet, cottager

See all 7 meanings of cotter

Forms of cottar

pluralcottars

Questions about cottar

What is cottar the alternative form of?
Cottar is the alternative form of cotter.

Words near cottar in the dictionary

  1. cottagy
  2. cottah
  3. cottahs
  4. Cottam
  5. Cottams
  6. cottar
  7. cottars
  8. cottas
  9. Cottbus
  10. cotted
  11. Cottee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cottar (page history and authors); cotter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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