One of the most tedious and costly processes in the execution of the detail parts of machinery is the cutting out of Cottar Slots in piston rods, connecting rods, and key recesses in shafts.
A Machine for cutting out Cottar Slots and Key-Groove Recesses in Parts of Machinery by a Traversing Drill.
At the Dribblings, on what is now the farm of Low Curghie (Kirkmaiden), lived a cottar who was the owner of two cows.
And the men new-freed from the levies return to the fields again, 'Matching a hundred battles, cottar and lord and thane.
Camps they builded at Gilling, at Basing and Alresford, But wrath abode in the Saxons from cottar to overlord.
They are in general in the cottar system, of paying for labour by assigning some land to each cabin.
A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar dares to refuse to execute.
Cottar nearly wept with joy as the campaign went forward.
There was a lecture at the United Services Institute on the supply of ammunition in the field, and the one man whose theories most irritated Major Cottar would deliver it.
Rummy thing," said the adjutant, after Cottar had returned to his wilderness with twenty other devils worse than the first.
Cottar was cantering across to polo, and he looked a very satisfactory figure of a man as he gave easily to the first excited bucks of his pony, and slipped over a low mud wall to the practice-ground.
A major of the new school backed this idea with enthusiasm, and he and Cottar accumulated a library of military works, and read and argued and disputed far into the nights.
Cottar endured their rioting as long as he could, and then sent down-country for a dozen pairs of boxing-gloves.
But there were horses in the land-ponies at reasonable price; there was polo for such as could afford it; there were the disreputable remnants of a pack of hounds; and Cottar worried his way along without too much despair.
An adjutant's position does not differ materially from that of head of the school, and Cottar stood in the same relation to the colonel as he had to his old Head in England.
No one can accuse young Cottar of runnin' after women, white or black," the major replied thoughtfully.
There was good pasture land for their cattle, and the various patches of oats and barley, turnips and potatoes, were enough to keep these sturdy cottar families in independent poverty.
A much stronger measure of what appears to them as justice towards the cottar population of Ireland, has been strongly recommended by several intelligent foreigners who have visited and examined the country.
Either the main body of the landlords, who are known to be quite incredulous as to any improvements being effected by their cottar tenants, must be allowed to pursue their own system of keeping them on hand--i.
It was a cart the cottar used in the cultivation of his little holding, and his son who drove it, now nearly middle-aged, was likely to succeed to the hut and acres of Bogsheuch.
His father would occasionally go also; and then the men of Stonecross began to go, with the cottar and his wife; so that the little company of them gradually increased to about thirty men and women, and about half as many children.
You have known the Browns all their lives, and yet you will let the idle blathers of an ignorant cottar wife set you against them!
She's a decent lassie--a dochter o' James Hewson, the cottar at Bodyfauld.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
