Obs. rare–1. [f. COTTAGE + -ERY.] A cottage holding or tenement.
1697. A. De La Pryme, Diary (Surtees), 159. The lord … of this mannour … had also a capon of every husbandry, and a hen of a whole cottagry, and a chicken of half a cottagry; and in hay time every one that had a cottagry went a whole day to make hay for him in Grime cloas.
