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cottered

cottered verb: knotted or entangled. Also the simple past and past participle of cotter.

Verb

cottered

  1. (Yorkshire) knotted or entangled
    • Cotter'd, knotted or entangled. "Cotter'd together", like dirty locks of wool.1865, William Stott Banks, A list of provincial words in use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, page 16

Also used as

cottered is also the simple past and past participle of cotter.

Questions about cottered

What does cottered mean?
Cottered means knotted or entangled.
What part of speech is cottered?
Cottered is a verb.

Words near cottered in the dictionary

  1. Cottenham Park
  2. Cottens
  3. cotter
  4. cotter pin
  5. cotter pins
  6. cottered
  7. Cotterell
  8. Cotterells
  9. Cotteridge
  10. Cotterill
  11. cottering

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