Definition of "cottager" [cot•ta•ger]

• One who resides in a cottage. (noun)

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• "[18: 17] matociquala: cottager is the word you want"
• "When they were come within sight of the wood, Brian cried out that he could see the shepherd's cottage; but Austin told him that he ought not to call the cottager a shepherd, but a hunter."
• "Until, that is, another cottager went foraging in the archives and found an 1854 by-law referencing just such a road - a by-law Meaford and its pre-amalgamation predecessors had never registered on the title of anybody's property."