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Definition of Cotter
1. Noun. A peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands.
2. Noun. A medieval English villein.
3. Noun. Fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together.
Specialized synonyms: Cotter Pin
Generic synonyms: Fastener, Fastening, Fixing, Holdfast
Definition of Cotter
1. n. A cottager; a cottier.
2. n. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge- shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
3. v. t. To fasten with a cotter.
Definition of Cotter
1. Noun. (context: mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together. ¹
2. Noun. Erroneously, sometimes used of a cotter pin. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To fasten with a cotter. ¹
4. Noun. A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cotter
1. a pin or wedge used for fastening parts together [n -S] : COTTERED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotter
Literary usage of Cotter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1909)
"GIB AND cotter 140. When a cotter is used to connect strap-shaped parts to a more
rigid rod, the cotter is divided into two parts, one acting as an ordinary ..."
2. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1888)
"d in proportioning the cotter. The proportions marked on the figure have been so
modified that the unit is the gross diameter d of the bolt. Fig. 99. Fig. ..."
3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"GIB AND cotter, A method of connecting separate parts of a machine. Sometimes one
of the connected pieces is required to move while the other remains ..."
4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1905)
"James cotter, by deed of the 1st of January, 1823, mortgaged the lands of Minos
in fee, ... In 1828 Sir James Lawrence cotter died, leaving James cotter, ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Nah then, mak haste and cotter them shutters." MACCLESFIELD. cotterILL, s.
a cloven piece of iron to fasten a wheel on to a spindle. ..."
6. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by James Anthony Froude (1873)
"cotter was actually hanged.2 All Cork and all the South of Ireland burst into a
wail of rage, and the Friends were marked for retribution. ..."
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