cottar

This wasn't a cottar or a herder that stood before him.

Morrison had been a cottar, like most of them.

No cottar's girl, if she did choose to go plain and scorning finery.

We'd get a bit of parritcli now and then from a cottar, but those folk are so poor themselves there's seldom anything to spare.

Here, had a cottar encountered me under such circumstances, I would doubtless have been thought a witch or a fairy.

"Ah, that'll be the house over beyond Beistan," said the cottar, leaning comfortably on his garden wall.

Mr. Cottar was not hurt in the incident.

Many of the houses are original whitewashed cottar houses used in the past by land workers on the estate.

From the journeyman down to the lowest cottar, meat was an expensive commodity, and would be consumed rarely.

Father Roche called Mother to tend a sick cottar."

"Walk into a cottar's hearth and offer him a gold denarius, or a wee emerald?"

But to risk marrying a cottar's daughter and being reduced to the life of a tenant farmer, as though you were born a serf?

Given these and how times, though, it isna just me; there's neither laird nor cottar can stand aside from what's to come.'

A cottar or cottier is also a term for a tenant renting land from a farmer or landlord.

Hugh knew every cottar and tinker, every farmhouse and manor within four parishes.

And Jamie can hardly pass for an innocent cottar, wi' yon great hole in 'im."

The Commission was a response to crofter and cottar agitation in the Highlands of Scotland.

Agnes told me that he was probably still with the cottar, "who dies not though he has been shriven," or was somewhere praying.

Cotter, cottier or cottar is the Scots term for a peasant farmer formerly in the Scottish highlands.

He would sing a song at a cottar's wedding, and on many wintry Sundays gather his congregation round him in his kitchen and give them dinner afterwards.

One such spot was rather to be shunned by the superstitious, for here, about 1698, a cottar family had been evicted by endless unaccountable disturbances in the house.

Lady Eliwys was tending the cottar, Lady Imeyne and the girls and the entire village were out cutting the Yule log.

The name Winscott is common for farms and hamlets in north Devon, the Anglo-Saxon word for the cottage of a cottar named "Wins".

But, brother," urged the cottar, appalled, "you'd as well beard the devil himself as walk into La Musarderie and confront Philip FitzRobert."

This is my favourite camp in Botswana and ranks alongside Cottar's 1920s Camp in Kenya's Masai Mara as the best in Africa.