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cotter
(encz) | cotter,závlačka n: Zdeněk Brož |
Cotter
(gcide) | Cotter \Cot"ter\, v. t.
To fasten with a cotter.
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cotter
(gcide) | Cottier \Cot"ti*er\ (-t[i^]*[~e]r), n. [OF. cotier. See
Coterie, and cf. Cotter.]
In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small
cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly
aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also
cottar and cotter.]
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Cotter
(gcide) | Cotter \Cot"ter\, Cottar \Cot"tar\ (k?t"t?r), n. [LL. cotarius,
cottarius, coterius. See Cot.]
A cottager; a cottier. --Burns.
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Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter. --Whittier.
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Cotter
(gcide) | Cotter \Cot"ter\ (k[o^]t"t[~e]r), n.
1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for
fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is
driven into an opening through one or all of the parts.
Note: [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly
called a key.
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2. A toggle.
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cotter
(wn) | cotter
n 1: a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands [syn: cotter,
cottar]
2: a medieval English villein [syn: cotter, cottier]
3: fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot
to hold two other pieces together [syn: cotter, cottar] |
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cotter
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cotter pin
(encz) | cotter pin,závlačka n: Zdeněk Brož |
Boycotter
(gcide) | Boycotter \Boy"cott`er\, n.
A participant in boycotting.
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cotter
(gcide) | Cotter \Cot"ter\, v. t.
To fasten with a cotter.
[1913 Webster]Cottier \Cot"ti*er\ (-t[i^]*[~e]r), n. [OF. cotier. See
Coterie, and cf. Cotter.]
In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small
cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly
aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also
cottar and cotter.]
[1913 Webster]Cotter \Cot"ter\, Cottar \Cot"tar\ (k?t"t?r), n. [LL. cotarius,
cottarius, coterius. See Cot.]
A cottager; a cottier. --Burns.
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Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter. --Whittier.
[1913 Webster]Cotter \Cot"ter\ (k[o^]t"t[~e]r), n.
1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for
fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is
driven into an opening through one or all of the parts.
Note: [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly
called a key.
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2. A toggle.
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Cotter drill
(gcide) | Drill \Drill\, n.
1. An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making
holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with
its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a
succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill
press.
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2. (Mil.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the
military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution
of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict
instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of
any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as,
infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
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3. Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity
and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin
grammar.
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4. (Zool.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which
kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through
the shell. The most destructive kind is {Urosalpinx
cinerea}.
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Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast.
Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for
drilling slots.
Diamond drill. See under Diamond.
Drill jig. See under Jig.
Drill pin, the pin in a lock which enters the hollow stem
of the key.
Drill sergeant (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer whose
office it is to instruct soldiers as to their duties, and
to train them to military exercises and evolutions.
Vertical drill, a drill press.
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Gib and cotter
(gcide) | Gib \Gib\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a
machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind
them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually
held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.
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Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed
wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used
for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the
end of a connecting rod.
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Scottering
(gcide) | Scottering \Scot"ter*ing\, n.
The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
[Prov. Eng.]
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cotter
(wn) | cotter
n 1: a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands [syn: cotter,
cottar]
2: a medieval English villein [syn: cotter, cottier]
3: fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot
to hold two other pieces together [syn: cotter, cottar] |
cotter pin
(wn) | cotter pin
n 1: a cotter consisting of a split pin that is secured (after
passing through a hole) by splitting the ends apart |
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