cottar

Etymology

noun

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of cotter (“peasant inhabiting a cottage”)
    Here, then, we have a description which, with the exception of what relates to the reciprocal services, would be applicable to the modern cottar where he is not an unlicensed squatter 1885, Lord Colin Campbell, The Crofter in History

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