cotter

Meanings

Noun

• A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
• A cotter pin.
• A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.

Verb

• To fasten with a cotter.

Related

Similar words

• coscet
• cottager

Origin

• Unknown
• From Middle English cotter, cotere, kottere, koter, cotier, equivalent to cot + -er, from Old English cot. Compare Old French coter, cotier.