Definitions
fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
Word origin
From Middle English cotter, cotere, kottere, koter, cotier, equivalent to cot (“cottage”) + -er, from Old English cot. Compare Old French coter, cotier.
Used in a sentence
“The chains are secured to each end of the cast-iron arches by cotters.”
“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”
“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, […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fastening pin”6 letters
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