† cotsetla, cotsetle Hist.
Also cote-.
[OE. cot-, cote-setla lit. ‘occupant of a cottage’ (-setla settler); app. the same as cot-sǽta.]
= prec. (See quot. 1890.)
| c 1000 Rectitud. Sing. Pers. in Thorpe Laws I. 432 Cotesetlan riht, be ðam ðe on lande stent. 1861 Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 201 The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the semi-servile. 1890 W. Cuningham Growth Eng. Industry 102 The cotsetle had a holding of about five acres, and was bound to work for his lord one day a week all the year round (week-work) and three days a week in harvest (boon-work). |