- cottiers
- n. resident of a cottage, resident of a shack
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
cottiers
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cotter — Cottier Cot ti*er ( t[i^]*[ e]r), n. [OF. cotier. See {Coterie}, and cf. {Cotter}.] In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord s farm.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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