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Definition of Cottier
1. Noun. A medieval English villein.
Definition of Cottier
1. n. 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.
Definition of Cottier
1. cotter [n -S] - See also: cotter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cottier
Literary usage of Cottier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1904)
"The produce, on the cottier system, being divided into two portions, rent, ...
The effects, therefore, of cottier tenure depend on the extent to which the ..."
2. Manual of Political Economy by Henry Fawcett (1876)
"The cottier tenure is so anomalous that it is not easy to characterise it in a
... It may however be said generally, that a landlord takes from a cottier in ..."
3. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1909)
"Rv the general appellation of cottier tenure I shall designate nil cases without
exception in which the labourer makes his contract for land without the ..."
4. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1868)
"Bv the general appellation of cottier tenure I shall designate all cases without
exception in which the labourer makes his contract for land without the ..."
5. Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1848)
"THE question, what is to be done with a cottier population ? which in any case
would have been a fit subject for consideration in a work like the present, ..."
6. Ancient laws of Ireland by Ireland, John O'Donovan, Eugene O'Curry, William Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, William Maunsell Hennessy, Robert Atkinson (1901)
"... animals of the cow-kind, 'seds' ; IV. 306, 13. Both, cot, tent, 'bothy'; I.
206, 4; II. 218, 12 tr. ' of cottier»,' Osa. III. 18 ; pi. ..."
7. Peasant Rents: Being the First Half of An Essay on the Distribution of by Richard Jones (1895)
"UNDER the head of cottier rents, we may include all rents contracted to be paid
in money, by peasant tenants, extracting their own maintenance from the soil ..."
8. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"spec. cotter, cottar, cottier (Great Britain and Ireland), muzhik or moujik,
ryot, fellah. pebble, n. stone (contextual); spec, chuck- ie (a quartz pebble; ..."
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