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
Once on a time there was a cottager who had an only son, and this lad was weakly, and hadn't much health to speak of; so he couldn't go out to work in the field.
From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.
On the morrow, the neighbourhood was thrown into a state of alarm by a cottager having found poor Toby Lackpenny in a swoon upon his shop-board.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Cooper, Thomas
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
