Cottager

  • 101cotters — cot·ter || kÉ’tÉ™ n. pin, peg; cottager; peasant farmer; tenant farmer v. attach with a pin; confuse; cause worry; occupy oneself with useless activities …

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  • 102cosset — verb (cossets, cosseting, cosseted) care for and protect in an overindulgent way. Origin C16 (asnoun denoting a lamb brought up by hand, later a spoiled child): prob. from Anglo Norman Fr. coscet cottager , from OE cotsta cottar …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 103cotter — n. Cottager …

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  • 104Bordar — 1) Smallholding cottager of lesser standing than villein but better off than cottar. (Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England, 213) 2) Usually, in rural contexts, a relatively humble peasant occupying a cottage with little or… …

    Medieval glossary

  • 105Cottar — See Cottager Cottars …

    Medieval glossary

  • 106Cottars — 1) Lowest of the main levels of peasant cultivators at Domesday; cottagers with 4 acres or less. (Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England, 213) 2) Smallholder (usually no more than a cottage and five acres of land). (Bennett,… …

    Medieval glossary

  • 107Cotter — 1) Lowest of the main levels of peasant cultivators at Domesday; cottagers with 4 acres or less. (Wood, Michael. Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England, 213) 2) Smallholder (usually no more than a cottage and five acres of land). (Bennett,… …

    Medieval glossary

  • 108Small Holder — Middle ranking peasant, farming more land than a cottager but less than a villein. A typical small holder would have 10 20 acres. Also known as a Bordar …

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  • 109Small holder — A middle class peasant, farming more land than a cottager but less than a villein. A typical small holder would have 10 20 Acres …

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  • 110dweller — n resider, habitant, inhabitant, Archaic. inhabiter, Law. commorant; abider, sojourner; denizen, occupier, occupant, addressee, incumbent; lodger, renter, boarder, roomer, tenant, paying guest; householder, cottager, homesteader, settler, lessee; …

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