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n. Alternative form of cotter. (one performing labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage)

n. In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.

n. See cotter.

n. a medieval English villein

"Nonetheless, the population explosion within the cottier and laboring class increased the aggregate dependence on the potato steadily and dramatically after the turn of the nineteenth century."

villein    helot    serf   

cottar    cotter   

cottager    peasant