Definitions for Cotter

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Cotter cot·ter

Spelling: [kot-er]

IPA: /ˈkɒt ər/

Cotter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in Cotter (ceortt).

Definitions for Cotter

noun

1. a pin, wedge, key, or the like, fitted or driven into an opening to secure something or hold parts together.
2. cotter pin.
3. Scot. a person occupying a plot of land and cottage, paid for in services.
4. cottager (def 2).

verb (used with object)

1. to secure with a cotter.

Origin of Cotter

1300-50; Middle English coter; akin to late Middle English coterell iron bracket; of uncertain origin

Examples for Cotter

Old cotter was sitting at the fire, smoking, when I came downstairs to supper.

cotter pointed through the rows of trees to a clearing beyond.

Whereupon Walton grinned and cotter, with a sigh, begged him to scowl again!

There were the cotter tenants, satisfied, certain of justice.

But why do you think it's not good for children, Mr. cotter?

The young men visited the cotter, and returned with the cart and the news.

I want to live in a cot like a cotter—that is, for us to live like two cotters.

You couldn't pull a cotter pin with a pair of pliers if you knew what a cotter pin was.

There was only room beside me for cotter, so I had him send down the knapsacks first.

We soon rounded the point, and cotter and the trappers and the Post were lost to view.