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n. [ From Cot a cottage. ] A small house; a cot; a hut. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [ Eng. ] --
Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Set or covered with cottages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who lives in a cottage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot. ] A cottager; a cottier. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fasten with a cotter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [ See Illust. ] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A toggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of fish including the sculpins.
Syn. -- family Cottidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]