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Definition of: cotter
(kot′ər) noun
1. Scot. A tenant occupying a plot of ground and a cottage under a system resembling cottier tenure.
2. Irish A cottier.
3. A cottager; farm tenant. Also cot′tar. [<Med. L cotarius <cota a cottage <Gmc.]
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