Alternative form of cotter (peasant inhabiting a cottage)(noun)
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Use "cottar" in a sentence
"He was what is called a cottar in Scotland, which name implies that of the large farm upon which he worked for yearly wages he had a little bit of land to cultivate for his own use."
"They were, indeed, like other cottars, a kind of feudal dependents, occupying an acre or two of the land, in return for which they performed certain stipulated labour, called cottar-wark."
""I'm a man of my hands," said the cottar confidently."