cotter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɒtə/    美 /kɑtɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
    — The chains are secured to each end of the cast-iron arches by cotters.
  2. A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage. historical
    — The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes,— / This night his weekly moil is at an end,— / Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, […]
  3. A cotter pin. informal
动词 v.
  1. To fasten with a cotter. transitive
    — She found Esco by the barn. He was trying to cotter a cart-wheel with a peg he had whittled from a locust branch, driving it in with a hand sledge

词形变化

cotters plural cotters present,singular,third-person cottering participle,present cottered participle,past cottered past cotters plural cottar alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
cotterless
相关词
cotter pin

词源

词源 1
Unknown.
词源 2
From Middle English cotter, cotere, kottere, koter, cotier, equivalent to cot (“cottage”) + -er, from Old English cot. Compare Old French coter, cotier.
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