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. Cunningham, 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).
