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Cottier
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Cot´ti`er    (~tĭ`ẽr)
n.1.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.
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Noun1.cottier - a medieval English villein
cotter
helot, serf, villein - (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord


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