cottars

There still subsists, in many parts of Scotland, a set of people called cottars or cottagers, though they were more frequent some years ago than they are now.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1756

And after a rather indigestible luncheon of salt beef and turnips, he held court, buying ale for the tenants and cottars who had lingered after their transactions, and a few villagers who drifted in when their daily work was completed, to gawk at the strangers and hear such news as we carried.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

The more illustrious of Colum's tacksmen and tenants were housed in the castle proper, while the poorer men-at-arms and cottars set up camp on a fallow field below the stream that fed the castle's loch.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

It must have gone much against the grain with Madog ap Meredith to be bested by a handful of foresters and cottars, he may well want his revenge when he feels it safe to bid for it.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

Finally, the last of the cottars and tenants drifted away to their dinners, and Dougal stood up and stretched, looking moderately satisfied, like a cat that has dined at least on milk, if not cream.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Perhaps twenty cottars, woodsmen and hewers of laborious assarts from the forests lay in cover against more than a hundred Welsh, and every man of the twenty braced himself, and knew only too well how great a threat he faced.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

Fashions in names certainly changed after the Norman conquest, when Norman-French names like Richard and William and Robert became popular and the Old English names dropped out of use, and it's unlikely that all the farmers and cottars with such names were of Norman descent.

Cearl, King of the Mercians Carla 2009

Slaves, serfs, villains, cottars, and other assorted menials, will be allowed an extra packet of aspartame flavoured kool-aid in their food bag.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

Indeed, over the centuries Catholic kings and popes gradually abolished the institution of slavery replacing ancient slavery with the Feudal serf and then replacing the serf and the unfree villeins, bordars and cottars with a free, land-owning peasantry and villeinage.

The State's Obligation to Recognize and Protect the Catholic Church 2007

Gillian waved greetings to the cottars they passed as she and Sir Evan strolled down the single hard-packed dirt lane that constituted the hamlet of Glen Laire.

My Devilish Scotsman Jen Holling 2005