▪ I. cotterel, n. dial.
(ˈkɒtərəl)
Also cotterell, cotteril(l, cottrel, -il, kotrell.
[Closely related to cotter n.2, which may be a shortened form, or the primitive of which this is a dim. So far as evidence has been found, cotterel is the earlier. The connexion of sense between 1 and 2 is not clear; they belong also to different localities.]
1. = cotter (in senses a and b). Chiefly north.
| 1570 Louth Church Acc. III. 66 For xxx cotterelles and viii wedges to the belles ijs. iiiid. 1584 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 18 Item given to James Huntlye for makinge kotrells, housses, bolts, and nales, to the bells, vij d. 1625 Inv. in Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., Two paire of Cotterells or Copsoles. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 15 The 5th thinge belonginge to a barre [of a hurdle] is cotterills, which..serve in steade of pinnes, being something like unto wood-pinnes but that they have a notch in the midst that they beinge once knocked in they cannot come forth againe; they are made to keepe the spelles fast in their heades. 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), Cottrel, a piece of iron with a hole in to fasten. 1794 W. Felton Carriages (1801) II. 193 The perch-bolt Key or Cotterell, is a thin piece of iron, fixed through the eye of the perch-bolt. 1873 Gloss. Swaledale, Yorksh., Cotterell, a cloven pin to fasten a bolt. 1876 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Cotteril, a metal pin put through a bolt-end, so as to prevent the bolt being drawn outward from its place. [So in Glossaries of Cheshire, Cumberland, etc.] 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Cottril, an iron pin passing through a shutter, and fastened on the inside by a peg fitting into a hole at the end. |
2. A trammel, crane, or bar, from which a pot or kettle is hung over a fire. Southern dial.
| 1674 Guidott Observ. Bath in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 130 As rust is bred upon pot-hooks and cotterels. 1674 Ray S. & E.C. Words 62 A Cottrel..a trammel to hang the Pot on over the fire. 1871 J. R. Wise New Forest Gloss., Cotterel, the crane to which the kettle or pot is fastened so as to hang over the fire. 1875 W. D. Parish Sussex Dial., Cotteril, a pothook; a hook to hang spits on. |
3. A washer.
| 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Cotterel, the small round iron plat between the nut of a screw and the wood to which it is screwed. 1877 E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Cotterell, a washer, or broad thin ring of metal placed below the head or nut of a bolt, to prevent it from crushing into the wood. A piece of leather of similar shape used to keep the strands of a mop together. |
4. Comb., as cotterel-bolt, cotterel-lug.
| 1850 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. i. 246 Held in its position..by means of iron pins or small cotterel-bolts passing through holes in the side of the grooves. 1888 Berksh. Gloss., Cotteralugg, a bar across the chimney breast to which is fastened the pot-hook. |
▪ II. ˈcotterel, v. dial.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To fasten with a cotterel; to cotter.
| 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. K iij b, In this hole is put a peg of wood with a Head upon it, and..Cottorel'd at the small End, that it cannot come forth. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Cottril, to fasten by means of a cottril. |