name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
cotter
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /kɒtə/
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General-American: /kɑtɚ/
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rhymes with -ɒtə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A minor city in Baxter County, Arkansas, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A minor city in Louisa County, Iowa, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, mechanical, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A cotter pin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 6
A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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verb
Meaning 7
To fasten with a cotter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 8
fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cottar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
Narrower terms: cotter pin
noun
Meaning 9
a medieval English villein
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cottier
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: serf, helot, villein
noun
Meaning 10
a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cottar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: peasant, provincial, bucolic
History
Etymology
Unknown.
From Middle English cotter, cotere, kottere, koter, cotier, equivalent to cot (“cottage”) + -er, from Old English cot. Compare Old French coter, cotier.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: щифт (štift) — pin to hold parts together
- Bulgarian: шпонка (šponka) — pin to hold parts together
- Finnish: kiila — pin to hold parts together
- Finnish: tappi — pin to hold parts together
- Russian: клин (klin) — pin to hold parts together
- Russian: чека́ (čeká) — pin to hold parts together
- Russian: шпо́нка (špónka) — pin to hold parts together
- Russian: суха́рь (suxárʹ) — pin to hold parts together
- Finnish: sokka — cotter pin
- Hungarian: sasszeg — cotter pin
- Belarusian: батра́к (batrák) — peasant
- Bulgarian: ратай (rataj) — peasant
- Dutch: keuterboer — peasant
- Finnish: mäkitupalainen — peasant
- Finnish: torppari — peasant
- Russian: батра́к (batrák) — peasant
- Ukrainian: батра́к (batrák) — peasant