The people of my friend are far from wealthy; there is scarce any circulating medium in Rum; and the cottars in Eigg contrive barely enough to earn at the harvest in the Lowlands money sufficient to clear with their landlord at rent-day.
In 1883 a Royal Commission inquired into the condition of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and islands of Scotland.
The cottarsof the neighbouring village were on other accounts in more than usually depressed circumstances at the time.
Four hundred are in the river at present, and will arrive in a day or two, making a total of nearly 2000 of Colonel Gordon’s tenants and cottars whom the province will have to support.
Dancing is so universal among them, that there are everywhere itinerant dancing-masters, to whom the cottars pay sixpence a quarter for teaching their families.
Here are few cottarswithout a cow, and some of them two.
Also large tracts rented by villages, the cottarsdividing it among themselves, and making the mountain common for their cattle.
The cottars on a farm cannot go from one to another, in order to find a good master, as in England; for all the country is in the same system, and no redress to be found.
The fishermen would see him sometimes as the night closed in sitting on the rocks overhanging the sea round Pengersick; or cottars would see him in the twilight wandering over the uplands.
Below these larger villein holders came a class called coliberts, cottars or bordars, who held about five acres of land each.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
