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Cotter

//kɒtə// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A minor city in Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A minor city in Louisa County, Iowa, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage. historical

    "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, […]"

  3. 3
    fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together wordnet
  4. 4
    A cotter pin. informal
  5. 5
    a medieval English villein wordnet
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  1. 6
    a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To fasten with a cotter. transitive

    "She found Esco by the barn. He was trying to cotter a cart-wheel with a peg he had whittled from a locust branch, driving it in with a hand sledge"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Etymology 3

From Middle English cotter, cotere, kottere, koter, cotier, equivalent to cot (“cottage”) + -er, from Old English cot. Compare Old French coter, cotier.

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