cottier

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cot=tier

CIDE DICTIONARY

cottier, n. [OF. cotier. See Coterie, and cf. Cotter.].

 In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cottier, n. Brit.
1 a cottager.
2 hist. an Irish peasant under cottier tenure.

Idiom

cottier tenure hist. the letting of land in small portions at a rent fixed by competition.

Etymology

ME f. OF cotier f. med.L cotarius: see COTERIE

ROGET THESAURUS

cottier

Inhabitant

N inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.