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cotter1 Machinery 1. any part, such as a pin, wedge, key, etc., that is used to secure two other parts so that relative motion between them is prevented 2. short for cotter pin cotter2 1. English history a villein in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman times occupying a cottage and land in return for labour 2. a peasant occupying a cottage and land in the Scottish Highlands under the same tenure as an Irish cottier cotter [′käd·ər] (design engineering) A tapered piece that can be driven in a tapered hole to hold together an assembly of machine or structural parts. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh;*
The short'ning winter-day is near a close;
The miry bests retreating frae the pleugh;
The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose;
The toil-worn Cotter Frae his labour goes,
This night his weekly moil is at an end,
Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes,
Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend,
And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. We slept till far into the afternoon, and then got up hungry enough to make cotter fare quite palatable to the king, the more particularly as it was scant in quan- tity. |
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