cotter — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.

   Esempi

   The chains are secured to each end of the cast-iron arches by cotters.

2. A cotter pin.

   Uso

   • informale

Verbo

1. To fasten with a cotter.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   She found Esco by the barn. He was trying to cotter a cart-wheel with a peg he had whittled from a locust branch, driving it in with a hand sledge

Sostantivo

1. A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.

   Uso

   • storico

   Sinonimi

   coscetcottager

   Esempi

   The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes,— / This night his weekly moil is at an end,— / Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, […]

Sostantivo

1. a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands

   Sinonimi

   cottar

   Termini più generali

   peasantprovincialbucolic

2. a medieval English villein

   Sinonimi

   cottier

   Termini più generali

   serfhelotvillein

3. fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together

   Sinonimi

   cottar

   Termini più generali

   fastenerfasteningholdfastfixing