Definition of "cotters" []

• Plural form of cotter. (noun)

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• "In fact, except for Gisrib, the three shepherds, the two miner families, and the few cotters who farmed the apron of land surrounding the western side of the town walls, hardly any of Hiddenhaven's populace had ever travelled anywhere else."
• "It was a long way between neighbors here; one or two cotters had cleared an area in the forest, which they had then bought; apart from that, all the land in sight belonged to the farm."
• "It was no small area these cotters had broken up; the homesteads were tiny but the fences surrounding the land included a good section of forest."