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How to pronounce cotter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cottier
Type of villein, helot, serf
Type Words
Synonyms cottar
Type of fastener, fixing, holdfast, fastening
Has types cotter pin
Type Words
Synonyms cottar
Type of bucolic, peasant, provincial

Examples of cotter

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Cotter has traveled to Africa 20 times and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro four times.
From the sacbee.com
Cotter has another uranium site-the defunct Schwartzwalder mine west of Denver.
From the denverpost.com
Cotter got in touch with the maker of Ava, who suggested that she open a store.
From the kansas.com
Cotter apologised for the bad language, as if that would be what offended us.
From the telegraph.co.uk
For pins that have a cross-hole in the threaded end a cotter pin can be used.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Cotter contends the water in the mine shaft is not connected to groundwater.
From the denverpost.com
Cotter Smith, an acclaimed Broadway, television and film actor, will star as McGuire.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Cotter coached Clermont Auvergne to the French top 14 championship in 2010.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Cotter received first place with a perfect score in the computer science competition.
From the chron.com
More examples
  • A peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
  • A medieval English villein
  • Fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
  • A cotter is a pin or wedge passing through a hole to fix parts tightly together. In British usage cotter pin has the same meaning, but in the U.S. it refers to a different fastener.
  • Cotter is a surname that originates in England and Ireland. It can also be an Anglicisation, chiefly in North America, of a similar sounding German surname.
  • A farm laborer who in addition to minimum pay, received a cottage with or without a small patch of land for his own use in return for working for the farmer. A cotter's place is called husmannsplass. ...
  • The inhabitant of a cot-house, or cottage.
  • A jack of all trades on the manor, usually a peasant who does not own any land in the village except their home.
  • Before the advent of the bolt and nut, this type of attachment was universal for hanging hardware and is still in common usage in many parts of the world. The wire is opened up where it passes through the drawer front. ...