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cotter 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
  2. a medieval English villein
  3. fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
  4. A cotter is a pin or wedge passing through a hole to fix parts tightly together. In British usage cotter pin has the same meaning, but in the U.S. it refers to a different fastener.
  5. Cotter is a surname that originates in England and Ireland. It can also be an Anglicisation, chiefly in North America, of a similar sounding German surname.
  6. a farm laborer who in addition to minimum pay, received a cottage with or without a small patch of land for his own use in return for working for the farmer. A cotter's place is called husmannsplass. ...
  7. The inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.
  8. A jack of all trades on the manor, usually a peasant who does not own any land in the village except their home.
  9. Before the advent of the bolt and nut, this type of attachment was universal for hanging hardware and is still in common usage in many parts of the world. The wire is opened up where it passes through the drawer front. ...
  10. Tenant of a cottage, usually holding little or no land.
  11. The student center, Cotter Union.
  12. pin for attaching cottered cranks