cottager
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That was not enough to stave off noisy charges that Mulroney was a "cottager," or outsider.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
We cross the railway near a station, which, as a cottager told me is “Mr. Pease’s station; built for hisself, and not for everybody;” and take a bridle road leading to the hill.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
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
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.
