cottager

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Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist.

From Time Magazine Archive

That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.

From Time Magazine Archive

Allot′ment, the act of allotting: part or share allotted: a portion of a field assigned to a cottager to labour for himself.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

He had attained, in their eyes, a new dignity in becoming a cottager.

From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith

This would immediately give the alarm, and set the kingdom on their guard; this would give courage to the meanest tenant and cottager.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)