† ˈcotland Hist.
Also coth-.
[f. cot n.1 + land. Early documentary evidence shows chiefly the latinized forms cotlandum, cotlanda.]
The piece of arable land (of about 5 acres) held along with his cot by the Old English cotset or cottar.
| a 1150 in Monast. Angl. I. 325 Item una virgata terræ, cum dimidia unius Cotlandi tota, sicut fuerat Walteri. ― Ibid. II. 128 Unam waram, & 2 Cotlandas cum dominio & prato. 1316 Patent 9 Edw. II (in Blount Law Dict. s.v.), De una Cothlanda terræ in Wathford. 1399 in Kennett Par. Antiq. II. 189 Dimidia acra jacet ibidem inter cotland quam Johannes Goldering tenet ex una parte, et cotland quam Thomas Webbe tenet ex altera. 1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. iv. 76 Three [acres] of cotland with a messuage. |