Associations to the word «Cottier»

Wiktionary

COTTIER, noun. Alternative form of cotter (one performing labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage)

Dictionary definition

COTTIER, noun. A medieval English villein.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope